the cold

noun

: cold weather
The cold really sets in around late November and doesn't let up until April.
I stood there shivering in the cold.
Come in out of the cold.

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Martin took the lead on the cold case five years ago. Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 July 2025 At the beginning of the cold war, the Soviet Union tried to develop its first electronic computers. Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 18 July 2025 Tracing these dust lanes reveals the cold, dense material that exists between stars. Adam Leroy, The Conversation, 15 July 2025 With shorter and warmer winters becoming the norm, fewer disease-carrying ticks are dying off in the cold months, increasing the number that survive and can bite humans when the weather warms up. Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 12 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for the cold

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“The cold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20cold. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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