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
Milk stored in the four-door cooler measured outside of proper holding temperatures.
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Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
With the weather getting cooler and the nights getting darker, Halloweentime is a natural fit for a cozy movie night.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
But for decades, fisheries managers stocked trout in rivers for people to keep and fill their coolers every weekend.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
Raw animal foods not separated by type based on minimum cook temperatures (raw chicken stored above raw eggs in walk-in cooler).
—Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 Oct. 2025
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Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025
With the weather getting cooler and the nights getting darker, Halloweentime is a natural fit for a cozy movie night.
—Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
But for decades, fisheries managers stocked trout in rivers for people to keep and fill their coolers every weekend.
—Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
Raw animal foods not separated by type based on minimum cook temperatures (raw chicken stored above raw eggs in walk-in cooler).
—Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 24 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 9 Nov. 2025.
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