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- noun Plural form of
thaw . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
thaw .
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Examples
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The goofy bits make it all the more satisfying when Daikichi steps up as a guardian and Rin thaws a bit in response to his efforts.
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The night being calm, the water gets cool below 32 degrees, but then a breeze springing up the water becomes agitated, precipitation takes place, and the plants serving as nuclei become immediately clothed with this spongy ice, and the sun shining next morning imparts so much warmth to the plants that the ice thaws which is in contact with them, and rises to the surface.
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838
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To give his 89-year-old mother peace of mind, Darryl Dahlheimer had her freeze her credit report, preventing lenders from opening new accounts unless she "thaws" it with a PIN number.
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Come summer, after the ice thaws, when Shell finally gets ready to deal with the spill, instead of finding an Arctic Ocean bursting with new life -- seal pups, fish, birds, polar bears -- we would find an Arctic that is dead, totally dead.
Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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Shell plans to leave the spilled oil until spring comes and the ice thaws.
Subhankar Banerjee: BPing the Arctic, Again -- Fast-Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling Subhankar Banerjee 2011
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If you had a good freeze and a good shad kill as soon as the water thaws shad is good.
What is the best bait to use for any type of catfish in the spring???? 2009
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If you had a good freeze and a good shad kill as soon as the water thaws shad is good.
What is the best bait to use for any type of catfish in the spring???? 2009
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If a spill happens outside of that window, their shiny, expensive plan is to leave the spilled oil where it is until spring comes and the ice thaws.
Cindy Shogan: Don't Allow Shell Oil to Destroy America's Arctic Cindy Shogan 2011
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Unfortunately If the Ice cap on Greenland thaws (which has been) cold fresh glacial melt comes down through the Davis Strait, and meets the Gulf stream and interrupts that Halide Cycle (which powers the Gulf Stream).
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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And the Arctic people will be happy for the warmer weather, but hey, even if the permafrost thaws and their highways collapse and their forests get eaten by pine beetles and consumed by forest fires, well, they can move to, right?
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