How to Use cooling-off in a Sentence

cooling-off

adjective
  • Each time, Stake would enforce the 24-hour cooling-off period.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Bloomberg, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Shortly after, a three-month cooling-off period was instituted wherein those duties were reduced to 30 percent.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The second emergency board, which released a report on March 16, extended by 60 days the required cooling-off period.
    Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 May 2026
  • But with the unions subsequently requesting the intervention of two emergency boards, that cooling-off period was extended, and an imminent strike was thwarted.
    Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 May 2026
  • These procedures can include reviews by a Presidential Emergency Board and cooling-off periods.
    Chad De Guzman, Time, 18 May 2026
  • That December, after more heavy losses, Chris got through another cooling-off period and permanently excluded himself from Stake.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Bloomberg, 27 Feb. 2026
  • As of Wednesday, the state budget of about $115 billion for the state’s 2026-27 fiscal year is in a 72-hour cooling-off period, with questions, debate and a final vote by legislators set for this coming Friday.
    David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2026
  • The third is protection—underwriting, confirmation, cooling-off periods, identity verification, human escalation.
    Jeromee Johnson, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026

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