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boiler

[boi-ler] / ˈbɔɪ lər /


NOUN
caldron
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NOUN
kettle
Synonyms


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If you book a boiler service, an engineer can do this for you.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

He rolls up his sleeves, says a colleague, negotiating boiler repairs and driving six hours round-trip to close a deal to earn $12,000 a year in rent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He’d return with images of abandoned stairwells, dilapidated neon signage, Art Deco theater facades, boiler room control valves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Officers did find a custom wooden library, a robotic lawnmower, a bathroom "vanity unit", a kitchen unit for the boiler and fitted mats at Sturgeon and Murrell's home.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

He saw the engine rooms and the boiler rooms, and wound up on the third-class recreation deck.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis

The fuel is piped into homes for furnaces and boilers and also burned at power plants to generate electricity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

There is also the green transition to pay for, with the household set to shell out £11 million a year replacing old gas boilers with new heat pumps at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Heat pumps have to work significantly harder than gas boilers to reach higher temperatures, which can increase their energy use - and cost.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

That's because, as we will see, heat pumps usually provide a more gentle heat than gas boilers.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Using a blunt sterling blade, I scraped away the soot engrained under his cuticles, relics of his job tending to train boilers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros


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