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The strength of affection can seem strange given the chain sold the most mundane, practical items from sink drainers to cat litter.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023

However, widgets are battery drainers due to their constant syncing with the mother ship or power-sucking animations.

From Time • Jan. 13, 2015

Too much of environmentalism views humans simply as consumers and users, as drainers and “footprints.”

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2011

After the brief session in death-defying one-foot drainers, we'd dry-docked our softboards on dry reef enough times to know it was time to go in.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have several forms of cultivators, horse-hoes, subsoil-plows, drills, seed-sowers, land-diggers, and drainers, various formed plows, root-cleaners, corn-planters, &c., &c.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.