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boiler

[boi-ler] / ˈbɔɪ lər /


NOUN
caldron
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NOUN
kettle
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He rolls up his sleeves, says a colleague, negotiating boiler repairs and driving six hours round-trip to close a deal to earn $12,000 a year in rent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He’d return with images of abandoned stairwells, dilapidated neon signage, Art Deco theater facades, boiler room control valves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

As well as savings, he recommends having an emergency fund for surprise bills like a broken boiler or car repairs.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Officers did find a custom wooden library, a robotic lawnmower, a bathroom "vanity unit", a kitchen unit for the boiler and fitted mats at Sturgeon and Murrell's home.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

He runs a business and he does heating maintenance and boiler repair with a man called Rhodri who is his employee.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon

There is also the green transition to pay for, with the household set to shell out £11 million a year replacing old gas boilers with new heat pumps at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The vast majority of households currently use gas boilers, but the government's ambition is to move most properties over to heat pumps.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

Scotland currently hosts the UK's only large-scale trial of using hydrogen for domestic heating - the H100 project in Fife where 300 homes have been offered hydrogen boilers, supplied by a bespoke gas network.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

Its targets for replacing gas and oil-fired boilers are contained in its newly-published climate change plan for the next 15 years.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

The boiler was not the same as the boilers I had worked on with my father, but I figured all boilers work the same way.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman


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