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  • adverb carried out at very low temperatures, near absolute zero.

Etymologies

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cryogenic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • Most of us are familiar with the idea of cryogenically freezing recently dead people, right?

    Eleventh Hour: They Only Freeze the Heads! 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • I more likely think of them as being cryogenically preserved and I fish them out and reboot them and see what happens.

    Steve Coogan talks up his new DVD collection | EW.com 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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