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steam

[steem] / stim /


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Tech-heavy indexes in Asia gained in early trading before losing some steam, though they stayed in the green.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

In recent months, Depp’s rehabilitation has appeared to gain steam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

In other words, sticky inflation is no longer primarily an energy pass-through story — it’s running hot on its own steam.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

A lot of GTA's players "are mostly there to blow off steam" and unleash chaos in these vast fictional metropolises, said Klippel.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Huge pipes carried steam created in enormous belowdecks boilers, which supplied heat to the officers’ cabins and the crew’s living quarters.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Down on the ground, smoke steams from the soil.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

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

In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

I love serving them over rice with whatever vegetables I have waiting in the freezer, perhaps some steamed edamame, corn and shredded cabbage.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

If you’ve been peering through the steamed up windows of the Amicus Plus smokeless cigar bar longingly, hovering over that “subscribe to Slate Plus” button.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

She made a feast of steamed mussels with coconut cream sauce, rib-eye, chicken, rice and sautéed mushrooms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

All the clothes you see, he steamed up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

One of the tugs steamed away while the other still stood by.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

Among those tending to their iced displays of fresh produce or quietly sipping a steaming coffee, there is a desire for the temperature of the demonstrations to decrease.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

A fresh aircraft-carrier strike group and Marine expeditionary unit are steaming toward the Middle East, and the Pentagon is weighing sending additional air-defense equipment and munitions to bases in the region, the officials said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The outages which have sometimes lasted 12 to 48 hours have plunged those living in the deeply impoverished country into steaming darkness at night.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

I throw on running clothes and head downstairs, where Mom’s doing today’s crossword puzzle at the kitchen table with a steaming mug of coffee next to her.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison


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