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Recent Examples of steamer
Otherwise, use a garment steamer to kill off any stowaway bugs.
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Vegetables, chicken, shrimp, firm or extra-firm tofu, and eggs are all excellent choices for sautéing.
Steam: This technique involves cooking food in a steamer basket by placing it over boiling water, allowing the steam to cook it gently.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 20 Jan. 2025
His father joined Zionist interests in Baltimore, contributing $50,000 to help purchase the former Old Bay Line steamer President Warfield, which in 1947 was renamed the Exodus, and transported more than 4,000 Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine, before being attacked by the British Navy.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Originally, Netflix intended for The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep to debut some time late last year, but the steamer revealed today that the movie is now set to premiere on February 11th.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 14 Jan. 2025
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Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Vegetables, chicken, shrimp, firm or extra-firm tofu, and eggs are all excellent choices for sautéing.
Steam: This technique involves cooking food in a steamer basket by placing it over boiling water, allowing the steam to cook it gently.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 20 Jan. 2025
His father joined Zionist interests in Baltimore, contributing $50,000 to help purchase the former Old Bay Line steamer President Warfield, which in 1947 was renamed the Exodus, and transported more than 4,000 Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine, before being attacked by the British Navy.
—Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Originally, Netflix intended for The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep to debut some time late last year, but the steamer revealed today that the movie is now set to premiere on February 11th.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
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In September of 1955, Marthe boards a steamship with two other fellows from France, both men, to make the five day trip across the Atlantic to Boston.—
Lorena Galliot,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2025
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More-efficient steam engines were deployed in new factories, trains and steamships.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
4 Feb. 2025
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Under the city solicitation, the project would also include a new floating stage for performers to replace the converted barge that once hosted performers at the stadium.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
4 Feb. 2025
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That barge is nicknamed Jacklyn, after the mother of Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
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The freighter encountered 35-foot waves, snow and winds at 51 mph with gusts up to 66 mph.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Nov. 2024
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The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.—
Jonathan Granoff,
Newsweek,
29 Jan. 2025
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.—
Jeff Martini,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2011
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The cloth cutters are mostly men; the sewers, who do the more complex engineering, such as the cuffs and collars, are mostly women.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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National security cutters are designed to support global operations and missions, and can hold a crew of up to 170, according to the branch.—
Alexandra Koch,
Fox News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.—
Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2023
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The line, however, is beginning to blur as people who vacation on yachts begin to view cruise liners through a charter lens.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Robb Report,
4 Feb. 2025
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Most recently, her lip shape liners have the Internet buzzing.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.—
Claudine Ebeid,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.—
Anna Mulrine Grobe,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.
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