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steam

[steem] / stim /


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From a location with especially dark skies, you might also notice a faint, cloudy band that appears to rise like steam from the Teapot's spout.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

The summer selloff in long-dated Treasurys gathered more steam on Monday, driving stocks lower for a second session in a row and pushing costs to borrow money higher.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

The exhaled steam has no smell at all.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

"AI has reached its inflection point," CEO Jensen Huang said in prepared remarks, describing the infrastructure buildout as going "at full steam."

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

The steam wisping off it smells so good I almost take a bite standing there.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The emptied vessel then returns to Iran—or at least used to, before the blockade—while the newly laden one steams on to China.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Norris also maintained other income steams, including a long-running role as a pitchman for the Total Gym line of exercise equipment, promoting his fitness regimen well into his 80s.

From MarketWatch Mar. 20, 2026

Crew members in cargo pants prepare scenery on stage, the costume department steams dresses and hairstylists comb wigs in a basement room backstage.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 13, 2025

I pile it over rice cooker rice, which steams quietly in the background like a saint and doesn’t punish me for wanting a warm carb in a too-hot world.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2025

They were excitedly pointing here and there, calling out to one another to try this, sample that, look at this unusual color, see how that one steams in its dish just so.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

All the clothes you see, he steamed up.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Xu, whose mother died when he was a year old, recalled in a speech how he ate only sweet potato and steamed bread in his school years.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Bell was particularly metronomic as she conceded just 16 from her 11 wicketless overs, while Issy Wong steamed in with her usual energy and passion.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

I remember the steamed vegetables that came out one day—it was literally just boiled vegetables they flopped into a catering thing.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 2026

They walked out of the warm gas station, and their breath steamed in the air.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

At the Times Square location at noon on a steaming Wednesday in August, I got a taste of just how intense the fandom has become.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

Those were days of profound anguish for distraught families back in Ecuador, who had no idea their loved ones were safe — and steaming toward Central America.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

The MCC has copied a technique of "steaming", which is used by the All England Lawn Tennis Club for the courts that host Wimbledon.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

No clue how long he sits staring at the darkened screen, but soon G’ma’s setting a steaming mug down in front of him.

From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone




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