boiler
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The school boiler room was a hefty, Soviet-era structure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The explosion blasted more debris toward him, but he was protected by cast-iron grates above him that were part of the boiler structure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
They said there were several call-outs for a faulty boiler and remedial action was taken.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
"It's usually what people are seeing on TV that sells well. Some years ago it was boiler suits from Squid Game, everyone wanted that," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It was only one word and it exploded in my head like a boiler.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
If you strip out the heat wasted in engines and boilers, electricity provides nearly 40% of useful energy, the International Energy Agency says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
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
With natural gas accounting for 12% of German power generation, and with half of German homes fitted with gas boilers, German households are also being affected.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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