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Recent Examples of unfreezeDays after signing the grant contract, KSUT received a stop-work order after FEMA halted spending, which CPB unsuccessfully sued to unfreeze.—Gabriela Aoun Angueira, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025 That does not include presidential pressure on educational institutions, including Columbia University, which paid a $221 million fine to settle the federal government’s claims against it and unfreeze federal funding.—Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025 Beshear joined a lawsuit in his official capacity, alongside numerous other states, to unfreeze the funding, which was appropriated by Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021.—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 13 Aug. 2025 Advertisement The Kremlin also asked for the lifting of Western sanctions, protection for Russian speakers in Ukraine, and a resolution to unfreeze the $300 billion in Russian sovereign assets that are currently being held in Europe, Reuters reports.—Solcyré Burga, Time, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unfreeze
Facing pushback from France’s centrist and left-leaning cultural and media sectors, relations thawed for a time after Dati’s energy and determination won her grudging respect from some quarters amid hope that her combative style might be to culture’s benefit.
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Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
Room temperature thawing shouldn’t occur, much less in the wash sink of the triple sink — especially since someone washed dishes in the rinse sink and a third person washed and rinsed a wiping cloth.
The medals were produced by Italy’s own state mint from recycled metals melted in renewable-energy furnaces—a pointed contrast to the 2024 Summer Olympic medals, in Paris, which had developed what some athletes described as a crocodile-skin texture within weeks of the podium.
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Eric Sullivan,
Scientific American,
21 Feb. 2026
Carpets and Upholstery Professional carpet and upholstery cleaning is often marketed as a spring refresh, but unless your winter involved muddy paw prints or melted snow mess, spring might not be the best time for you.
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Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Feb. 2026