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Recent Examples of freeze-dried
Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
Once a sample is taken to determine its age, it will be freeze-dried for preservation purposes and possibly displayed in the future.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
Beef organ supplements contain a blend of cow organs that are freeze-dried and powdered.
—Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2025
Mills also recommended not feeding cats raw milk or raw food, even if the products are commercially packaged, frozen or freeze-dried.
—Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Kelly's taste test: Axios had an early taste of the two colorful drinks and fell in love with the interesting combination of peppermint and matcha as well as coconut and freeze-dried dragonfruit.
—Kelly Tyko, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Here’s How Monica Found The Texts The biggest opportunity for growth in pet right now is in premium dog food that is fresh, frozen or freeze-dried.
—Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
This extract is freeze-dried to remove the water and turned into granules.
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 7 Oct. 2024
The strawberries are harvested, freeze-dried, infused with white chocolate, then cooled to create a rich, chocolaty treat that has all the flavor of fresh fruit.
—Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2024
Adjective
The drying process can cause instant coffee to be a little acidic; look for freeze-dried instead of spray-dried.
—Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 21 Aug. 2025
Once a sample is taken to determine its age, it will be freeze-dried for preservation purposes and possibly displayed in the future.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
Beef organ supplements contain a blend of cow organs that are freeze-dried and powdered.
—Allison Herries, Verywell Health, 16 Apr. 2025
Mills also recommended not feeding cats raw milk or raw food, even if the products are commercially packaged, frozen or freeze-dried.
—Jia H. Jung, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2025
Kelly's taste test: Axios had an early taste of the two colorful drinks and fell in love with the interesting combination of peppermint and matcha as well as coconut and freeze-dried dragonfruit.
—Kelly Tyko, Axios, 22 Oct. 2024
Here’s How Monica Found The Texts The biggest opportunity for growth in pet right now is in premium dog food that is fresh, frozen or freeze-dried.
—Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
This extract is freeze-dried to remove the water and turned into granules.
—Lauren O'Connor, Ms, Health, 7 Oct. 2024
The strawberries are harvested, freeze-dried, infused with white chocolate, then cooled to create a rich, chocolaty treat that has all the flavor of fresh fruit.
—Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 19 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freeze-dried
Verb
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In Monday night’s 28-3 loss inside Invesco Field at Mile High, any concept of competitiveness this season evaporated into the thin, Rocky Mountain air.—
Paul Dehner Jr,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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And in a year when awards expectations have frequently evaporated once people actually started to see the movies, there is great value in one like Sinners, which has already passed the test with critics and audiences.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
Verb
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All continers must be dried properly before storing.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Role of Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Both fresh and dried fruit can be part of a healthy diet.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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To test how ant yogurt could be used in cooking, the research and development team at Alchemist then created three dishes, using live, frozen and dehydrated ants.—
Amarachi Orie,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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If your efforts at home are not working and your skin is still dehydrated, contact a dermatologist for an evaluation.—
Sherri Gordon,
Health,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The authors argue that those features, the intact, hyper-flexed skeletons and the absence of the disarticulation expected after ordinary decay, indicate bodies had been desiccated before burial rather than interred as fresh cadavers.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
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Any cell drifting in the skies is blasted with UV rays and desiccated.—
Katherine Bourzac,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Freeze-dried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freeze-dried. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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