cryogenic

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Recent Examples of cryogenic SpaceX sought a similar cadence before Flight 10, but mishaps during Starship's upper stage testing for Ship 36 caused an explosion on the test stand during cryogenic fueling. Josh Dinner, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025 After five seasons on that network, the show spent another 10 years in the cryogenic chamber before coming back to life on Hulu. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025 In space, the crew of the Maginot (whose name forebodingly references France’s expensive but futile World War II Nazi defense) awakens from years of cryogenic slumber in preparation for a return to Earth. Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025 The change of states in tantalum disulfide by the use of temperature only is important because laser technologies are more expensive and harder to embed in electronics than non-cryogenic cooling techniques, says De la Torre. Meghie Rodrigues, IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for cryogenic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cryogenic
Adjective
  • Drifting With the Ice In subzero temperatures, under the dark of polar night, nearly 100 people drifted on a piece of ice for close to a year.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In what’s been called a risky, daring, and heroic mission, a Royal New Zealand Air Force crew flew 2,400 miles in 20 hours in subzero temperatures and total polar darkness to evacuate three American scientists at the McMurdo research station in Antarctica on Aug. 5.
    George Petras, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The achievement allows particles to be studied in significantly ‘purer’ quantum states without requiring ultracold temperatures.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The biggest challenge is that the property was observed at ultracold temperatures of about 60 kelvins (-351 °F/-213 °C).
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 June 2025
Adjective
  • But even in that mode, the rover must balance battery conservation against subfreezing temperatures.
    Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 13 June 2018
Adjective
  • Lo then jumps overboard to escape the assault and swims through the freezing waters to shore.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Millions of Americans face sub-freezing conditions on Friday as temperatures plummet and wintery conditions hit.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Areas as far south as Florida may experience arctic weather as a result.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 25 Sep. 2025
  • One of these is that the entire arctic region experiences six months of daylight and six months of darkness.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Continue reading … POLITICS POLAR PANIC – US turns to Finland to close Arctic ‘icebreaker gap’ as Russia, China expand polar presence.
    , FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The higher the number, the greater the chance of seeing auroras farther from their usual polar regions.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even Duke feels the icy storm that is Dixie Bennings, played by LeAnn Rimes.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Research mapping the thickness of the world's icy crust not only provides a window for how old an existing ocean might be but also probes where the crust might be at its thinnest — the perfect spot for future missions to detect the ocean.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The team predicted colors like sunbaked peach, acid green — which were both shown in PatBo’s collection — and combinations like tan with red, and deep blue paired with glacial blue — as seen at Rachel Comey — would be as part of the collections.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Past research in the Arctic has identified tens of thousands of methane seeps -- many of them linked to climate change impacts and the degradation of cryospheric caps, such as glacial ice, permafrost and gas hydrates, the authors said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Cryogenic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cryogenic. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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