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In 2019, a BBC Watchdog Live investigation revealed that Monzo had been freezing or closing bank accounts and leaving some people in financial difficulty for weeks.

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2021

I added some fresh cherries into the ice cream after it had been freezing for about 30 minutes.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2020

Warmth flooded into the room, and Taisin realized that it had been freezing before—how could Suri be sweating?

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

And a week before we had been freezing in Sig�enza!

From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle

On making this great and sudden transition into an atmosphere so intensely cold, he felt as if his blood had been freezing, and experienced a severe pain in the right ear and jaw.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various