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  • adjective superlative form of cold: most cold.

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Examples

  • Though Mr Bloxham defended the decision to clear the pavements on Friday - in the aftermath of what he described as the coldest two day period - he said that that didn't "assail the problems people had" in the freezing conditions.

    News round-up 2010

  • A high, windswept plateau of East Antarctica, the surface of Vostok is often described as the coldest place on Earth.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • A high, windswept plateau of East Antarctica, the surface of Vostok is often described as the coldest place on Earth.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Among the places Strandberg has explored is Latin America on horseback in 1997, Maasailand in East Africa in 2000, where he met and lived with the Maasai people for one year, and Siberia in 2004, where he explored the Kolyma River in freezing cold temperatures, a journey that has become known as the coldest ever expedition in the history of exploration.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News FEYZA TOKAÇ 2010

  • Among the places Strandberg has explored is Latin America on horseback in 1997, Maasailand in East Africa in 2000, where he met and lived with the Maasai people for one year, and Siberia in 2004, where he explored the Kolyma River in freezing cold temperatures, a journey that has become known as the coldest ever expedition in the history of exploration.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News FEYZA TOKAÇ 2010

  • Among the places Strandberg has explored is Latin America on horseback in 1997, Maasailand in East Africa in 2000, where he met and lived with the Maasai people for one year, and Siberia in 2004, where he explored the Kolyma River in freezing cold temperatures, a journey that has become known as the coldest ever expedition in the history of exploration.

    TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News FEYZA TOKAÇ 2010

  • The weather was generally described as the coldest, worst winter weather to hit this part of China in 50 years, and the native Guiyangers I talked to confirmed the reports.

    gan_bei: Alone Time gan_bei 2008

  • A state, is called the coldest of all cold monsters.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • To Build a Fire By Jack London Cast your mind back over time for a moment, if you will, and try to recall the coldest weather you've ever experienced.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Perhaps the latter is a way of rendering solitude bearable and of naming the coldest objects that enclose it.

    Salvatore Quasimodo - Banquet Speech 1959

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