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boiler

[boi-ler] / ˈbɔɪ lər /


NOUN
caldron
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NOUN
kettle
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Vlasenko was remarkably open, and I was struck by his humor as he recounted how he survived holed up alone in a school boiler room on the front line of the war with Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 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

If you book a boiler service, an engineer can do this for you.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 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

Finally she gets this idea to cut the rope on the ragged edge of the boiler.

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

It bore battle scars, but there was a shielded space under two large concrete slabs and between two large metal boilers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 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

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

Its targets for replacing gas and oil-fired boilers are contained in its newly-published climate change plan for the next 15 years.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 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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