steamer
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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
He left behind a massive steamer trunk full of manuscripts, many of which were attributed to artists not named Fernando Pessoa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
They circled round and round the stranded steamer chatting excitedly.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Thousands of schooners, or sailing ships, and hundreds of steamers hauled cargo and passengers between bustling port cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 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
Some of the large excursion steamers began to list toward the center of the river as people crowded their rails.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
