steam
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Meanwhile, the paper has a feature on how "a global effort to tax tourists is picking up steam".
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Expanding clouds of steam rise from newly opened cracks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Meta’s stock is having a month to remember as the Facebook parent’s artificial-intelligence assistant gains steam.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
Others said the industry squandered its chance to close the deal earlier in the year, before any of those forces gathered steam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The bathroom is thick with steam, and my pjs stick to my skin.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
Plus, Wall Street’s AI train steams ahead, and China swipes the Driscoll’s secret for growing blueberries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
As Stuart Broad steams into bowl, watched studiously by Stokes and McCullum, a less familiar member of England's camp looks on from behind the nets.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023
“I am not a teacher,” Hardwick steams, “I am a writer.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
The water steams, and as the steam clears, I can see the few remaining water bottles at the bottom of the ruptured cooler melt, spilling the contents out pointlessly.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
People stop by Amadou Gaye's shack at the market in the western town of Sukuta to use his small electric mill to grind millet for cooking porridge or the local steamed grain dish called chere.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
All the clothes you see, he steamed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
My choice of dumplings has more filling — like chicken soup dumplings, or chicken-and-vegetable steamed dumplings.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
One business that sells steamed savoury suet puddings, an old-school British classic, worries memories of days gone by may not be enough to keep their puddings going in the long term.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
The plates and glasses got steamed to remove any spots or grime left from the night before.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
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
Leaning over a steaming pile of waste in his Iowa backyard, Travis Roggatz felt a snap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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 MV Hondius's voyage began on April 1 in Ushuaia, Argentina, taking in some remote islands in the South Atlantic Ocean before steaming north to Cape Verde.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Some fires are out, others are still steaming, flickering smoke.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
