as in jails
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 coolers
Feel free to bring chairs, towels, coolers and umbrellas.
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Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, but pets and coolers are prohibited.
—Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 10 Apr. 2026
Guests will find an array of international food vendors (so no coolers or outside drinks are allowed).
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Hardside coolers are incredibly heavy when filled, but this one is easy to wheel across parking lots, beaches, and parks.
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
Violations included expired food, employees not washing their hands and broken coolers.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 1 Apr. 2026
The market would not sell alcohol, given Estrada wants to use coolers previously used to store alcoholic beverages to expand the store’s dairy selection.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
The stands serve as sites of passing assembly—roadside water coolers—and repositories of gossip and news.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The rule does not force any team to hire anybody, just that the team’s pool of candidates not be like the WHITES ONLY sign on water coolers in the 1950s.
—Greg Cote
updated March 30, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
Irene Wright, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
Guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs, but pets and coolers are prohibited.
—Travis Pinson, Dallas Morning News, 10 Apr. 2026
Guests will find an array of international food vendors (so no coolers or outside drinks are allowed).
—Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Hardside coolers are incredibly heavy when filled, but this one is easy to wheel across parking lots, beaches, and parks.
—Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
Violations included expired food, employees not washing their hands and broken coolers.
—Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 1 Apr. 2026
The market would not sell alcohol, given Estrada wants to use coolers previously used to store alcoholic beverages to expand the store’s dairy selection.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026
The stands serve as sites of passing assembly—roadside water coolers—and repositories of gossip and news.
—Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
The rule does not force any team to hire anybody, just that the team’s pool of candidates not be like the WHITES ONLY sign on water coolers in the 1950s.
—Greg Cote
updated March 30, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coolers
Noun
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Researchers centered their work on areas where Fulton County has direct responsibility—courts, jails, elections, libraries and public health.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Now, the island has 10 jails, and can house up to 17,000 prisoners, the city says.—
Amethyst Martinez,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Chinese government launched a brutal crackdown in Xinjiang starting in 2017, sweeping a million or more Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other predominantly Muslim ethnicities into prisons and internment camps.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Apr. 2026
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López Aliaga, the ultraconservative former mayor of Peru’s capital, Lima, focuses on a hard-line security agenda, proposing to build prisons in the country’s Amazon region, allowing judges to conceal their identities and expelling foreigners who are living illegally in Peru.—
Franklin Briceño,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Behind bars in state penitentiaries in Gatesville and Marlin, Mejia felt forgotten.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Mar. 2026
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The wave of prison violence is happening despite the deployment of military and police forces in several penitentiaries.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
8 Dec. 2025
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“Coolers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coolers. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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