steam
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Boockvar told MarketWatch he thinks the Fed might not hike rates in December if the market selloff picks up more steam.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026
Strong results for chip maker SK Hynix helped calm investor fears that the AI spending boom was running out of steam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Irina Ivanova uses two sauna whisks made of branches to spread hot steam on Olga Gurskaya in the steam room at City Spa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
With others worried about the noise data centres make and the space they take up, a public backlash is gathering steam.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
March 27 had been a normal day at work when they heard the “boom!” of ash and steam exploding out of the new crater.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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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
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
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Emma Orlow, a writer for the digital food publication Caper, favors Tashkent’s stuffed cabbage and manti, Uzbek steamed dumplings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 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
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
The windows of the cabin stayed steamed up almost all day, the kettle had boiled so long.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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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
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
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
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
Something with ground chicken, something steaming hot that splashes on my fingers and makes me yelp.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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