iron
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Union Pacific’s 1.2-million-pound iron giant is on its first coast-to-coast tour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The Lauensteins, who spent years scouring architectural salvage sites for items including wrought iron, hardware, lighting and doors to decorate their home, largely stewarded the transformation, with occasional guidance from interior designers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Gadi Eisenkot, who enjoys more popular support than any other leader of the Israeli opposition, may be the man who can end Benjamin Netanyahu’s iron grip on his country’s politics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The furnaces operate at extreme temperatures, with iron ore and coking coal poured in at the top and liquid iron extracted at the bottom.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The iron throws him flat on his back, but as his men come running through the gunpowder smoke, he sits up.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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The EV incentives will take effect in the coming weeks as the California Air Resources Board irons out agreements with dealerships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Rose will play with McLaren irons and is likely to use the more forgiving game-improver versions at the long end of the bag and blades for the rest.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Hotel irons are sketchy and hotel dry cleaning is expensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
The five-time major winner from Northern Ireland switched to cavity-back irons for last December's Australian Open and two events this year in Dubai but is back to familiar equipment this week.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Tumbling peacefully they would, and when He said Rise only the flat irons.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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Some issues need to be ironed out for those plans to be commercially viable.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
The details of the proposal are still being ironed out, but the governor’s office expects the tax would raise $500 million a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Honey and others ironed out the technical details of merging information from different agencies and crafted data-sharing contracts.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
It’s unclear whether all the details of this provision have been ironed out.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
In reality she carried it on her hand in the black bandage, which she did not take off even to sleep and which she washed and ironed herself.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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First she mocked women with, “What am I, my husband’s servant? Picking up after him all the time, picking his undies off the floor, ironing his clothes? What am I, his servant?”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 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
Both are still ironing out the details of the agreement, with improved access to the European market for Australia's lamb and beef a key source of contention.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
The house was unlocked, the ironing board was out, the hoover plugged in, washing was hanging on the line outside, the medication she needed for Crohn's disease had been left behind.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
"Send us all a text when you make it out of surgery," I said, ironing the wrinkles out of my khaki skirt with my palms.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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