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Recent Examples of stone-cold
Plus, stone-cold shooting haunted Northfield in the first half.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
Houston beat us, stone-cold beat us.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
Deep Space Nine, or Diane Keaton’s ex in Manhattan, or André’s dinner guest, or the stone-cold-serious playwright of The Designated Mourner, or even the boy who grew up with the mid-century New Yorker crowd.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Carhartt's Detroit jacket is a stone-cold classic.
—Adam Cheung, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
—Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Secretary Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar and has zero credibility.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
John Malkovich plays the stone-cold President Snow in pre-recorded videos that bookend the arena, looming over the show’s Katniss Everdeen in a crisp, white suit.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
Two otherwise healthy, stone-cold-normal children died.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
Houston beat us, stone-cold beat us.
—Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 13 Mar. 2026
Deep Space Nine, or Diane Keaton’s ex in Manhattan, or André’s dinner guest, or the stone-cold-serious playwright of The Designated Mourner, or even the boy who grew up with the mid-century New Yorker crowd.
—Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Carhartt's Detroit jacket is a stone-cold classic.
—Adam Cheung, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
And now the daughters and granddaughters of the Ladies Aid and League of Catholic Women’s groups are organizing food, shelter, and finances against stone-cold invaders.
—Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
Secretary Kristi Noem is a stone-cold liar and has zero credibility.
—Ali Bauman, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
John Malkovich plays the stone-cold President Snow in pre-recorded videos that bookend the arena, looming over the show’s Katniss Everdeen in a crisp, white suit.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 22 Dec. 2025
Two otherwise healthy, stone-cold-normal children died.
—Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stone-cold
Adverb
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The animals can recover from their cold-stunned state.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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All told, the five sites collected 5,195 dead or cold-stunned iguanas.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Some were downright sinister; others piously refused to look women in the eye.—
Azadeh Moaveni,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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Arkansas has become a leader in this anti-democracy celebration, with a Legislature, governor, attorney general, and state Supreme Court not only ready, willing, and able, but downright eager to enact, implement, defend, and uphold legislation designed to make a mockery of our official motto.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Not immaterially, its bright-orange color looks absolutely gorgeous against the rest of the sandwich.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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The fact that this president is so focused on Iran and Venezuela — has no interest in helping people here at home — is absolutely heartbreaking.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
22 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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That said, however, anyone who picks anything other than this rap classic as the greatest basketball song of all time is just plain wrong.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2026
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And the animation is plain ugly, even by the network’s standards.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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“Stone-cold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stone-cold. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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