flash-freeze
Americanverb (used with object)
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Instead of laboriously crystallizing a viral protein and bombarding it with X-rays, the scientists flash-freeze proteins and scatter a beam of electrons off them.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2022
But you don’t have to flash-freeze your home.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2021
On the packed-earth floor sat a cooler with dry ice and a canister full of liquid nitrogen, which is needed to flash-freeze tissues for genetic studies.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
As Horn bobbed in half-frozen slush, Ousland—careful not to get his hands wet, which could flash-freeze them into uselessness—reached from the edge of the ice and desperately grasped his partner’s harness and pulled.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 24, 2020
Workers then wrap them, put them on trays and proceed to first steam, then flash-freeze them by the hundreds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
The stockpiling and flash-freezing of these cuts starts in May.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2023
The way it works is similar to flash-freezing a design in a glass of water and draining away the rest of it, leaving an intricate ice sculpture behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Researchers can determine structures of cellular proteins by flash-freezing them, then photographing them at near-atomic resolution using an electron microscope.
From Nature ● Dec. 16, 2015
In the next few months a big food processor will announce that it is flash-freezing fruits and vegetables with liquid nitrogen, which locks in that on-the-vine flavor.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chill between them flash-froze the narrative at a crisis point.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2018
Mort recognized very early that comic strips — a form of creative expression with a predominantly American center of gravity — flash-froze the national psyche at any given moment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2018
When the tarpaulin was removed it left moisture on the field, which flash-froze in the extreme cold, leaving an icy playing surface that worsened as the afternoon wore on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2017
That’s when Duane Roberts, who grew up in Riverside and made his fortune selling flash-frozen burritos, bought the property and reopened it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
He tinkered around with the idea and developed a flash-frozen burrito filled with beef, beans and red chili powder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
A special feature of this method is the use of flash-frozen tissue, which is cut wafer-thin.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023
Mr. Kaplan, for example, works as the head of coffee product at Cometeer, a company that sells flash-frozen coffee concentrate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
The leftover inventory was flash-frozen crab that can be stored about a year, she says.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
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