as in disasters
something that has failed
the get-acquainted meeting with his fiancée's parents turned out to be a complete frost
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as in bugs
to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts
it was the salesclerk's high-handed rudeness that really frosted me
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Recent Examples of frosts
Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
These vegetables all handle light frosts well, and potentially some freezing weather too.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2025
When to harvest before a hard freeze hits Ideally, these crops will only be allowed to be exposed to one or two light frosts to better their flavors without pushing the plants too far.
—Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
Extreme weather events such as early frosts, drought and high heat or rainfall also have a strong effect on the brightness and timing of leaf color, says University of Arizona plant phenologist Theresa Crimmins.
—Humberto Basilio, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
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Timing of Application The best time to add mulch in the fall is after one or two frosts.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for frosts
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The Packers had seen their season end in two of the last three postseasons in part because of special teams disasters, and Saturday night was no different.—
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Overall, the nation suffered a staggering 23 separate weather and climate disasters in 2025, each of which cost over $1 billion in damages.—
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Check the head and base and foot of the bed, peeling back the top sheet to look for evidence on mattress covers, box springs, dust ruffles, and the headboard—and most importantly, the mattress seams and piping because bed bugs like to hide in cracks and crevices.—
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Both can reduce debris or items that attract the boxelder bugs.—
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Thinking globally and acting locally means electing people of vision, not people who couldn't find their way out of a paper bag without a lobbyist lighting their way under the table, or down the wrong path where for-profit companies rule and teachers are scapegoated for society's failures.—
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Despite multiple ongoing investigations, survivors say officials still lack answers about why response failures disproportionately affected west Altadena.—
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One of its two young sibling protagonists, Amber (Bianca Belle), channels her feelings about the recent death of her mother into drawings of creatures born out of her troubled imagination, some of whom enact violence against the classmate who annoys her.—
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There's just one thing about Claire Danes that annoys Matthew Rhys.—
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An observer of catastrophes, come what may.—
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Across their nearly 100-year football rivalry, USC and Notre Dame have only paused their annual matchup for global catastrophes like World War II and the Covid-19 pandemic.—
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Feeney’s book features multiple narrators, but relativity is not an idea the series bothers to develop.—
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Now, wages have grown, but inflation bothers people.—
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Advertisement Books provide us with refuge from disappointments and heartbreak and loss.—
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Yes, rookie draftees got playing opportunities but none was a standout, and the top two picks were closer to disappointments than successes.—
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In Russia, the civilian repressive apparatus persecutes the military, which leaps at every chance for revenge.—
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“Frosts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frosts. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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