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Lunn promised to provide low-cost necessities—groceries, coal, and ice for the pre-electric era iceboxes—by starting city-run businesses to compete with private merchants who exploited their poor customers.
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Time, 22 July 2025
This icebox cake looks as impressive as a classic Southern layer cake, but doesn't require turning on the oven.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
Before refrigerators and iceboxes, high-fire, nonporous pottery was essential to life—the Tupperware or Ziploc bags of the 19th century.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
Active Time: 20 mins Total Time: 25 mins Servings:
10
Keep the oven off, and whip up this five-ingredient icebox dessert.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 May 2025
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Time, 22 July 2025
This icebox cake looks as impressive as a classic Southern layer cake, but doesn't require turning on the oven.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
Before refrigerators and iceboxes, high-fire, nonporous pottery was essential to life—the Tupperware or Ziploc bags of the 19th century.
—Jacoba Urist, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2025
Active Time: 20 mins Total Time: 25 mins Servings:
10
Keep the oven off, and whip up this five-ingredient icebox dessert.
—Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for icebox
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“Icebox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/icebox. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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icebox
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ice·box
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