steamer
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Cheers to hotels that will deliver a professional-grade steamer to your room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
At one point, I realized I had forgotten to put water in said steamer — which is, you know, a steamer’s whole deal.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
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
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 preparations for the trip kept the family busy for two weeks, and the house became a clutter of trunks, steamer baskets, and valises.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
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
Posters advertising the sales showed steamers merrily plying the imagined waters of the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Once the terminus for river steamers bringing timber and lumber down from the upper Skagit, the town has a history of attracting a mix of fishermen, farmers and artists.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
He had five steamers at the scene now, plus three hose carts and a hook-and-ladder wagon, all of them pumping water into the fire at various locations.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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