air-conditioning

Definition of air-conditioningnext
present participle of air-condition
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for air-conditioning
Verb
  • Highs today will only hit the mid to upper 40s with morning lows down near the freezing mark both days.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • In parts of the Midwest from Minneapolis to Detroit, temperatures could fall to below freezing.
    Kyle Reiman, ABC News, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Unlike Honeywell, Dover has not announced plans to dramatically reshape its constellation of businesses, which spans from refrigerator doors to liquid cooling components for AI servers to car lifts at the autobody shop.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Alvarez awoke Sunday leading the majors in slugging, OPS and home runs, a flaming core at the heart of a cooling lineup.
    Matt Kawahara, Houston Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This cake can be made up to a day before frosting.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The overexaggerated femininity, in Linda Cho’s frosting-on-an-Easter-cake costumes, is its own winking critique.
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Research opens a channel, but more is needed Since refrigerating people wasn’t a viable treatment, chemists and pharmacologists needed to create a small molecule that could replicate what happened in the cold.
    Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Another amendment Senate Democrats proposed was that if a homeowner could provide medical proof that the utility is medically necessary, like refrigerating medication, then a utility company can’t shut down the service, Pol said.
    Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The photos showed the bump and her icing her head.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Higher mortgage rates now have some worried about icing out even more potential homebuyers.
    Brian Cheung, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
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“Air-conditioning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-conditioning. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.

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