ironing

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The adhesive CreateMe uses is thermoset, which means that ironing or washing machine temperatures aren't enough to melt it and make the clothes fall apart, insists Myers.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Although there’s little evidence that Boone ever profited from her invention, it became the prototype of later mass-produced ironing boards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

In this case, I can’t see how ironing out a few wrinkles and covering a rumpled duvet with a digital bedspread materially misrepresents your home.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

The administration is still ironing out the details, Hassett noted in the interview on Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord