as in penitentiary
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
plea-bargained to avoid spending time in the cooler
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Recent Examples of cooler
Ready-to-eat food subject to contamination by raw animal product (raw chicken and beef kabobs above ready to eat food in reach in cooler, raw chicken and fish above ready to eat food in walk-in cooler).
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Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
While the latest inflation report came in cooler than anticipated, Americans remain wary about prices and their overall financial outlook.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
And several of its coolers and freezers were also damaged.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Organizers also give a nod to the city’s world-famous coffee scene with the AO Frappe, an iced grab-and-go cooler.
—Tim Newcomb, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2025
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Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
While the latest inflation report came in cooler than anticipated, Americans remain wary about prices and their overall financial outlook.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
And several of its coolers and freezers were also damaged.
—La Risa R. Lynch, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Organizers also give a nod to the city’s world-famous coffee scene with the AO Frappe, an iced grab-and-go cooler.
—Tim Newcomb, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cooler
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cooler
Noun
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Meanwhile, his crooked sidekick, Robertson, BOP # 21731-509, is locked up in another good-time penitentiary in Beckley, WV.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Portlaoise Prison, which is in the center of Ireland, is a nineteenth-century penitentiary built like a fortress—a one-star establishment, at best.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Moore said that while any and all legal options will be considered, the group's main focus will be on advocacy for pretrial services and other programming that can keep people out of jail.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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The amendment would reallocate $570,965 from the capital budget for camera replacements at the Criminal Justice Facility, which houses the county jail.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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This was also when a torture scandal emerged at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison.—
Ben Wedeman,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Though there’s no new material in the reissue, reheating her own nachos for a new generation should be a piece of cake for Martha Stewart, who allegedly made flan in prison one time.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Cooler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooler. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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