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Relations between the two have been thawing for a while, he said, at mutual appearances including a recent celebration in Boston for an employee who worked in both of their Senate offices handling constituent problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2016

But as temperatures rise and the summer season lengthens, the soils in Alaska and the Arctic have been thawing.

From Scientific American • Jan. 20, 2015