as in clam
a cold aloof person
his wife is such an icicle you're lucky to get so much as a greeting from her
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Recent Examples of icicle
These icicle lights, $27.99 at Amazon, look like a meteor shower or falling snow across the night sky.
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Nora Colomer, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
No drool icicles hanging from his mouth and his body shook with excitement.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
On the way to the suspension bridge, about a 15-minute walk, see giant icicles along the cliff sides and the frozen top of the Montmorency River, their stillness stark against the roaring rush of the waterfall.
—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Available in crystal-clear, white, and gold, each is 5 inches long, modeled after natural icicles, and ready to hang.
—Miles Walls, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Nora Colomer, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
No drool icicles hanging from his mouth and his body shook with excitement.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
On the way to the suspension bridge, about a 15-minute walk, see giant icicles along the cliff sides and the frozen top of the Montmorency River, their stillness stark against the roaring rush of the waterfall.
—Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Available in crystal-clear, white, and gold, each is 5 inches long, modeled after natural icicles, and ready to hang.
—Miles Walls, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for icicle
Noun
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Complete with mollusks like clams, oysters, snails, and slugs, the model showed how various animals might’ve responded to the climate changes of 252 million years ago based on their modern relatives’ abilities to survive similar shifts in their environments.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Pismo clams, once abundant along the California coast, are being grown and studied in a middle school classroom.—
Laylan Connelly,
Orange County Register,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Earlier this year, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off the Antarctic Peninsula.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Mar. 2025
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In January, an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from a massive ice shelf in Antarctica, revealing an underwater world never before seen by humans.—
Lauren Liebhaber,
Miami Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The beef sticks have a Feb. 10, 2026 expiration date.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA TODAY,
22 Mar. 2025
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According to the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the affected Chomps beef sticks were shipped to retailers in California and Illinois.—
Julia Landwehr,
Health,
21 Mar. 2025
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This is one reason many addiction experts think that a medication like buprenorphine is more effective as a treatment for opioid-use disorder than stopping cold turkey.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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That’s why quitting cold turkey can be difficult and ineffective for someone used to frequently vaping high doses of nicotine.—
Quispe López,
Them,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Icicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icicle. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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