steamer
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At one point, I realized I had forgotten to put water in said steamer — which is, you know, a steamer’s whole deal.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
A travel steamer can help him stay crease-free on every adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
These are foam or gel-filled toys of various brands shaped like bao buns, and sometimes sold in plastic replicas of bamboo steamer baskets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Exhausted, I pressed my cheek against the side of my steamer trunk and pushed the bowl away.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
For the past 20 years she has instead worked maintaining electrical items, such as water purifiers and clothes steamers, in people's homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
By the early 1900s, steamers from Seattle offered city folk a beach day at Rosario.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Maybe she skimped on verbal and physical affection, favoring a love language that expressed itself in steamers full of dumplings or plates of sliced fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
Some of the large excursion steamers began to list toward the center of the river as people crowded their rails.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
