steamer
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With little formal education, Mulholland had left his native Ireland in his teens, worked steamer ships on the Great Lakes, labored in lumber camps and prospected for gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Synear Foods’ pork-and-mushroom shumai, sold at Costco and H Mart, can go straight from the freezer to the steamer and be served right in the basket.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
These are foam or gel-filled toys of various brands shaped like bao buns, and sometimes sold in plastic replicas of bamboo steamer baskets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
The Dream Midtown went so far as to wheel an industrial size steamer into my room when a portable one wasn’t immediately available.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
We pictured that: the steamer trunks being bumped down the stairs from the batty attic.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
The market also offers workshops to make shower steamers and toilet cleaning tabs in partnership with Seattle Zero Waste.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
For the past 20 years she has instead worked maintaining electrical items, such as water purifiers and clothes steamers, in people's homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
Maybe she skimped on verbal and physical affection, favoring a love language that expressed itself in steamers full of dumplings or plates of sliced fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
But then, one day, as I came up to the cottage with a pail full of steamers, I overheard him arguing with Miss Maggie and knew it had something to do with me.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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