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Recent Examples of polar However, the same frigid temperatures that degrade important drugs like Trastuzumab aren’t a problem for polar fish. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025 Wooden vessels for polar exploration typically reinforced the hulls internally with diagonal support beams, which braced the sides of the ship against lateral compression from powerful sea ice, said Tuhkuri, who researches the mechanics of ice. Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025 Perhaps counterintuitively, a strong polar vortex actually keeps coldest weather bottled up near the North Pole. Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025 Cassini launched nearly 30 years ago carrying instruments built in the 1980s or 1990s, back when the moon’s subsurface ocean and south polar plumes were unknown. Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for polar
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Adjective
  • The challenge of evaluating Beauvoir is that both her life and her work were extraordinary in ways that are deeply, bafflingly contradictory.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • At least a half-dozen people described an emotional seesaw they were put through by weeks of contradictory UPS tracking updates about their shipments.
    Kayla Steinberg, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Hornbein and Japanese Couloirs are defined by their steep, icy, and narrow conditions and the high risk of avalanches.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Other credits include playing opposite Nicolas Cage in Between Worlds, starring alongside Hilary Duff and Jonathan Bennett in The Haunting of Sharon Tate, and headlining Lifetime’s Psycho Sister-in-Law.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Although the new commercial space ethos of building satellites fast and cheap has dominated Earth imaging from space for years, deep-space astronomy has so far been headed mostly in the opposite direction — trending toward more complex machines worth billions of dollars.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Even the entry-level rooms feel indulgent, with marble bathrooms, white damask bedcovers, and the occasional gas fireplace for frigid winter nights.
    Siobhan Reid, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Oysters are cold-blooded creatures that hibernate if the water is too frigid.
    Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Allow contrary viewpoints to be heard.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The current chaotic geopolitical landscape fuels contrary trends in the South Caucasus.
    Thomas de Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
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
  • Frankincense and resins open the composition, mingling with tonka and vanilla bean for a sensual, sophisticated, and addictive aroma that invites you to linger beside a boutique hotel’s flickering fireplace on a cold night.
    Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
  • This matching set’s rise to Amazon popularity couldn’t come at a better time, with cold weather and the holidays right around the corner.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Mauricio Pochettino saw the contrast this week when the USMNT swerved from one friendly in sunny Austin to another in relatively chilly Denver.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The unsatisfying partnerships and the chilly childhood, not-so-nurtured under British colonialism.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Polar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polar. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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