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- adverb carried out at
very low temperatures, nearabsolute zero .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of us are familiar with the idea of cryogenically freezing recently dead people, right?
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In that sense, he's a kind of cryogenically-frozen footballer from the recent past, a measure of the game's progress.
unknown title 2009
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Freeze her cryogenically before she can say anything else!
VIDEO: Tyra Banks Wants to Be the New Disney, Is Creating a Celebrity Finishing School 2011
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This doesn't do much toward making me feel less like an insignificant speck, but I console myself with the thought that in 500 years or so, I will have carved out a useful niche, and they will put my cryogenically frozen head in a place of honor on Gliese 581 G.
Kepler 10-b? I thought I was an only planet! Alexandra Petri 2011
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In the show, Philip J. Fry, a pizza boy who is accidentally cryogenically frozen until the 31st century, lives in "New New York" and makes some odd friends, including a hedonistic robot, a curvaceous one-eyed ship captain and a professor who happens to be his very distant nephew.
TV on DVD 2011
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The Blue Peter Badge for Book of the Year has been awarded to Ali Sparkes for Frozen in Time, a novel about two children who are cryogenically frozen for 50 years and wake up in 2009.
Spectrum Awards: The Names sfawardswatch 2010
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I more likely think of them as being cryogenically preserved and I fish them out and reboot them and see what happens.
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I'm getting cryogenically frozen and waiting until they come out in Direct-to-Brain version where you don't even have to watch it but just download the memory of watching it to your mind.
Lord of the Rings Theatrical-Edition Blu-Ray Angers Fans | /Film 2010
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The fans are out of it - we think they may actually have been cryogenically frozen by the stadium conditions at this point - our starting QB is hurt and our backup QB is a mess.
Elizabeth Engel: 2010 NFL Conference Championship Recap Elizabeth Engel 2011
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The Blue Peter Badge for Book of the Year has been awarded to Ali Sparkes for Frozen in Time, a novel about two children who are cryogenically frozen for 50 years and wake up in 2009.
sfawardswatch: Blue Peter Book of the Year sfawardswatch 2010
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