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• n  the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
  the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours
• n  warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
• v  become or cause to become soft or liquid

• Russia is now bent on thawing out the cold war.

• thaw
• melt
• melting
• warming
• dissolve
• unfreeze
• unthaw
• dethaw

News & Articles

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• Auto dealers drive May retail sales up past expectations
  Retail sales improved in May as thawing temperatures and more cheerful shoppers caused a boost at car dealerships and home improvement stores, according to government figures.        
  June 13, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Gullies on Mars Give Way to Dreams of Snowboarding in Space
  This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is an example "linear gullies" formed by dry ice thawing across the planet's sand dunes. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. Mars' surface is streaked with furrows and ditches across its rusty red soil, mimicking our planet's river plains. But unlike Earth, Mars has no surface ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Online NewsHour
• Is a sleeping climate giant stirring in the Arctic?
  Permafrost zones occupy nearly a quarter of the exposed land area of the Northern Hemisphere. NASA's Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment is probing deep into the frozen lands above the Arctic Circle in Alaska to measure emissions of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane from thawing permafrost -- signals that may hold a key to Earth's climate future.
  June 11, 2013 - Science Daily

Quotes

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• Justin Vaughan in Stuff.co.nz
  What appears to have come out is a commitment from the BCCI to meet the ICL, but till that happens no one is in a position to know what the outcome is,Vaughan said. "It's good to see a slight thawing in the relationship ...... but how long...
• President Bush in Reuters
  We're working to stabilize the markets and make credit more affordable and available,said Bush, whose eight-year term at the White House ends on Jan. 20. "Credit is beginning to move. A market that was frozen is thawing. There's still more...
• Stephen Harper in National Post
  The Government of Canada will extend its jurisdiction in the Arctic by doubling the range at which Canadian environmental laws and shipping regulations will be enforced,the Prime Minister said. "Whether it is the thawing of the Northwest...