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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cool .
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Examples
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The weather is pretty darn good -- a little rain cools things down, and there's plenty of sunshine inbetween.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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A mild word cools the heat of anger, as water extinguishes fire.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales Jean Pierre Camus 1618
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When used in exterior advertising-type applications, for example, traditional amber LEDs tend to dim as the day gets warmer and brighten as the night cools, which is a problem.
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So the White House hopes that kind of cools their complaints about his spending.
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So he kind of cools this off and takes away that pressure without kind of ticking off Hillary Clinton's voters who of course he very much wants to come to his side.
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But if it goes on for a couple more weeks and then it kind of cools off, then you can go to the usual long-term diplomatic strategy.
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Obviously if they are, that changes the whole dynamics, but if it goes on for a couple more weeks and then it kind of cools off, then you go back to the usual long-term diplomatic strategy.
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But there are still some showers popping up in the warmest part of the day out there, and that kind of cools things down just a touch.
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So, they might have to wait until nightfall, use the infrared assets that they have on the helicopters, after everything kind of cools down.
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"The polar regions are where the Earth kind of cools itself," said Scott Borg, director for Antarctic science at the National Science Foundation.
BLACK ENTERPRISE 2009
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