furnace
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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 new furnace would have an annual production capacity of about 1.6 million tons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In Pressure, Stagg is thrown into a high-stakes furnace of egos.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
It’s a freezer in here but a furnace outside.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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The company expects to build plants at the site to process the ore for use in electric arc furnaces with scrap steel to make new steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The strategy confirmed electric arc furnaces as the future of British steelmaking, replacing traditional blast furnaces, which resulted in job losses at steelworks including Port Talbot.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But in the meantime, the plant formerly known as Ilva has been ordered to shut off its blast furnaces by October 28 due to the presence of asbestos and illegal levels of fine airborne particles.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
So does switching to renewable energy and electrifying energy use with EVs and heat pumps, which replace furnaces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
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
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
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
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
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