ironing
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The two sides appeared to still be ironing out their lines of communication through the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
All 115 Thameslink trains will get new seat cushions and backrests, replacing the much-criticised seats dubbed "ironing boards" by passengers.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
“What the 60-day window is actually for is ironing out the thorniest details,” Henrietta Treyz, director of economic policy at Veda Partners, wrote in a note.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Duchamp’s seeming disinterest often revealed itself to be something far more venomous, as when he fantasized about a nihilistic readymade: “Use a Rembrandt as an ironing board.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
Well, Sky-High," said his mistress, "I am going to give you this cabin under the trees, where you may do your washings and all your ironings.
From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Hezekiah Butterworth
Maria worked hard at her braiding—that was open to anybody's observation; but there were less obvious flutings and ironings down in the kitchen, and adjusting of ribbons and flowers in secret consultations up-stairs.
From What She Could by Susan Warner
Who has told of the turnings, the dyings, the ironings, the darnings, that have gone to make misses of ten pounds a-year pin-money look as smart as the squanderer of five hundred?
From The Widow Barnaby Vol. I (of 3) by Frances Eleanor Trollope
She could do washings and ironings if she could get them and do it here at home.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration
She owned a little soft, white silk frock, which still looked festive and partyfied, in spite of frequent washings and not too careful ironings.
From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch
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