cold front

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Recent Examples of cold front Earlier models showed the potential for another tornado outbreak in the Chicago area less than a week after 13 tornado touchdowns were confirmed in the south and southwest suburbs and Northwest Indiana, but a cold front has lessened the threat and pushed it further south. Laura Bannon, CBS News, 17 June 2026 On Wednesday, there is a significant chance of more thunderstorms likely to redevelop along a cold front passing over far eastern Illinois and northwest Indiana, officials said. Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026 The main concern on Wednesday will be a cold front that is expected to sink south into northern Missouri and northeast Kansas in the afternoon, the weather service said. Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026 On Friday afternoon, meteorologists anticipate, a cold front will come through the area, bringing highs down into the mid-80s for the weekend. Mia Thurow, IndyStar, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for cold front
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Noun
  • The chills, along with some sudden nausea, were so strong that my mom and I left the Greek Theatre early.
    Josh Rivera, USA Today, 21 June 2026
  • In the summer, the weather is typically golf-perfect with mild temperatures and chill breezes as the day moves on.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • The region faced another brutal, 19-degree cold wave in January 1985 that again froze millions of orange trees on thousands of acres across Central Florida.
    Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
  • The impact of a cold wave is delayed but sustained.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
    Natalia Winkelman, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • The bureaucratic coldness of Bolshevik Communism and the violent regressions of Fascism were yet worse.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Children exposed to smoke have more frequent colds, ear infections and bronchitis and smoke levels in a vehicle can reach levels comparable to what a firefighter experiences during 4 to 8 hours of battling a wildfire, according to the children’s hospital report.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 24 June 2026
  • A little cold didn't stop Couric and her grandson from getting some fresh air!
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • That first bite delivers the crispy outside with a soft chew of rice, followed by the hot dog.
    Justin Brown, AJC.com, 27 June 2026
  • Opening to the public June 29, Level 99 also serves a full menu of bites, cocktails and beers and features the work of 23 visual artists from across the world.
    Joe Burbank, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Or that Penélope Cruz’s sultry chilliness would jibe with either her male counterparts or Wilde’s diary-of-a-mad-housewife interpretation of a brittle, eager-to-impress woman brimming with creative frustration.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Both events had plunged ties into a deep freeze.
    Michael Kugelman, Time, 26 June 2026
  • When Quibi launched in April 2020 and went dark by December 2020, that failure caused a deep freeze among media companies thinking of launching short-form video content.
    Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Noun
  • The city’s Rent Guidelines Board has unsurprisingly voted for the rent freeze on which Mayor Mamdani campaigned.
    Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
  • In June 2025, the university also announced a hiring freeze and paused annual pay increases, citing uncertainty in funding sources.
    JT Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 26 June 2026

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“Cold front.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20front. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.

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