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steamer

[stee-mer] / ˈsti mər /
NOUN
kettle
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Nothing seemed to fit properly in the steamer.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

These are foam or gel-filled toys of various brands shaped like bao buns, and sometimes sold in plastic replicas of bamboo steamer baskets.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

As she happily concedes, Ms. Prose takes enough liberties to fill Andersen’s steamer trunk.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The Cranstons were traveling with a wagonload of steamer trunks.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Pamper them with 100% natural aromatherapy shower steamers from Wenatchee that slowly fizz and release essential oils to relax and rejuvenate.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

For the past 20 years she has instead worked maintaining electrical items, such as water purifiers and clothes steamers, in people's homes.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

Maybe she skimped on verbal and physical affection, favoring a love language that expressed itself in steamers full of dumplings or plates of sliced fruit.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022

They are inward toward the other, bound and joined by carnival dolls and the steamers that sailed from ports they never saw.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison




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