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Recent Examples of steamer
Many of these come with steamers or colanders for draining pasta water.
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Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
The steamer has yet to confirm a release date for KPopped.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
Instead of chucking that big portable steamer into your bag, or worrying yourself with the availability of ironing boards at your destination, consider packing wrinkle-free travel clothes instead.
—Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
In between dry cleaner drop-offs, use a steamer to de-wrinkle your suit.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
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Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
The steamer has yet to confirm a release date for KPopped.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
Instead of chucking that big portable steamer into your bag, or worrying yourself with the availability of ironing boards at your destination, consider packing wrinkle-free travel clothes instead.
—Mia Huelsbeck, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
In between dry cleaner drop-offs, use a steamer to de-wrinkle your suit.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
Noun
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In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís.—
Laura Gómez,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2025
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The survivors yelled for help when a steamship passed them during the night, but without flares to signal they were not seen.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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The key objective of the New Glenn's first uncrewed spaceflight last month was for the second stage of the vehicle to safely reach orbit before Blue Origin attempted to land the rocket booster, or first stage, on a barge several hundred miles offshore in the Atlantic.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2025
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The pieces were lifted by a crane and placed onto a barge with other parts recovered from the flight that took off from Wichita, Kansas, Wednesday for Washington's Reagan National Airport with 60 passengers and four crew members on board.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2025
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Chris Cook, Maersk’s managing director for South Asia, told the Economic Times that the company would explore the potential and feasibility of investing in dedicated air freighters and partnerships in the green fuel segment in India.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Mar. 2025
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The other is in December of 2004, the show’s current-day timeline where Desmond has landed on a freighter several miles offshore from the island where Oceanic Flight 815 crashed.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 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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The cutter was relatively effective (.416 expected opponent slugging percentage), as was his sweeper (.428 XSLG), but left-handed hitters teed off on his four-seamer (.778 XSLG) and change-up (.509 XSLG).—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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Through August, Webb’s cutter accounted for 1.1% of his pitches.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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The breathable and form-fitting Nylon/Spandex liner is coated with nitrile (a synthetic rubber) for protection and grip.—
Nora Taylor,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2025
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In one example of China’s Cosco Shipping, which generated $6.7 billion in net profit in 2024, McCown highlighted that one vessel traversing the West Coast would cost the liner $3.5 million per port call.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Alaska Airlines has invested in the project and the US Air Force has awarded a $235 million contract for a demonstrator that could serve as an air refueling tanker, cargo or transport aircraft.—
Jerrold Lundquist,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Russia responded by using a shadow fleet of tankers whose ties to Moscow were hidden to transport the commodity which continues to generate high revenues for the Kremlin, despite sanctions.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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