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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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My house will eventually need a new roof and probably a new furnace.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Seiler placed them in a semi-sealed steel container with very little oxygen and heated them in a high-temperature furnace in his home laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Japanese company is investing about 900 million euros at its Slovakian operating unit to build an electric arc furnace and an air separation unit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Every stage is crucial," explains master cymbalsmith Hasan Seker, a burly 56-year-old who co-founded Bosphorus Cymbals in 1996 and is sweating after hauling glowing blanks into and out of the furnace.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Or maybe they couldn’t get the fire for the furnace going.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz

In a US city once known for its steel industry, workers enjoy family outings beside retired, rust-streaked blast furnaces.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

In April last year, the government passed an emergency bill to take control of British Steel amid reports the then-owner Jingye was planning to switch off two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Italy's government says the country's largest steel works must be converted to electric after a court-ordered shutdown of polluting furnaces but, as Rome seeks a buyer, critics say its plan is woefully unsubstantiated.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

Specialized vacuum furnaces required to make these parts have lead times of more than two years, according to Chiang.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

From most of them you could see the flames dancing above Sparrows Point’s furnaces and the eerie red smoke pouring from its smokestacks.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various


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