COOLERS Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

coolers

noun

plural of cooler

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody plea-bargained to avoid spending time in the cooler

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Recent Examples of coolers No outside food, beverages or coolers are allowed; also no weapons. — Dan Kelly august 30, Kansas City Star, 30 Aug. 2026 There was standing water on the cookline floor, by the walk-in coolers and the three-compartment sink. — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026 The question is coming up at water coolers and beyond this summer. — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 28 Aug. 2026 Middlebrook had been flying his plane for decades to the villages that dot the Kuskokwim River Delta to fix coolers and refrigerators, Springer said. — ABC News, 27 Aug. 2026 Cars ease into place — grills, coolers and folding tables pulled from their trunks. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026 Over the past 12 months, the talk of AI productivity has taken over corporate water coolers, C-Suite offices, and consultant meetings. — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026 Customers can pick them up in Walmart’s ready-to-drink coffee aisle and at some stores, in the Grab & Go coolers near the front. — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 Ice can last two to three days in most hard coolers and five to seven days in high-tech, rotomolded coolers that are injected with insulation. — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2026

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When women tried to march for their rights, they were violently suppressed, and by 2023, nearly all those in Afghan jails were political prisoners, and many were tortured.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 31 Aug. 2026
Filling empty beds The national incarceration rate – which includes both jails, for short-term detention, and prisons, for sentences of more than a year – has more or less crept downward since 2010.

— Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

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Hodge says he was abused in multiple federal penitentiaries, but was frequently blocked from filing complaints about it.

— Christie Thompson, NPR, 13 July 2026
This includes providing the Colombian military more leeway in the field, signing a new security agreement with Washington and building 10 mega-prisons that mimic Bukele’s network of penitentiaries in El Salvador.

— Daniel DePetris, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026

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