steam
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A cycle of market quirks that deepened the recent U.S. bond selloff is losing steam, raising hopes that the rise in bond yields will slow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It has frequently been involved in restoration projects, including helping to return a 75-year-old steam locomotive to working order.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
The primary suite offers an enormous spa-inspired bathroom, as well as a fireplace, wet bar, steam shower, and gym, with the listing describing it as a “private retreat.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
All that steam time also shrinks “the product,” Langer says,”anywhere from 35 to 38%.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
A train’s steam engine wails, pulling into a too-small station.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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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
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
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
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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
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
Our local host narrated what followed with the ease of a docent: yellow croaker steamed in fragrant rice wine and a whole fruitwood-roasted duck, brought out intact before being carved three ways tableside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
All the clothes you see, he steamed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The crystal-blue pools boiled and steamed, and a thick mist curled down the wide avenues and marble-lined streets.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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The meat, cured at Burbank’s RC Provisions with a proprietary recipe developed by Al Langer, still gets a lengthy — and costly — steaming after it arrives at the restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Wall Street’s AI train is still steaming ahead, even after the technology’s leaders called for a slowdown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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 also avoid making a towering high volcano, instead sticking to small piles or hills, since I like to enjoy my mashed potatoes steaming hot.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
She took a whiff of the hot steaming lasagna.
From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene
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