as in to storm
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam
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Recent Examples of steam
Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
Small children sat outside of homes, selling steaming chayote and coffee and paper flowers.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
Clara McMahon, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
Choose to restore and relax or energize and rediscover your sense of play with some fun activities—here the options are all literally on your doorstep.
Find your Zen in your own 4,000-square-foot spa zone, quietly padding from steam room to Vichy shower, from hot tub to cold plunge.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Gravy may have become a convenience food with the advent of stock cubes, but there's still nothing like a steaming drizzle of authentic homemade gravy made with meat juices to crown your delicious Thanksgiving feast.
—Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2024
Small children sat outside of homes, selling steaming chayote and coffee and paper flowers.
—Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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Pick up trusty cleaning gadgets like the Bissell Little Green carpet cleaner and this nifty steam cleaner to get your home company-ready for the holidays, or treat yourself to something special while super soft bed sheets and plush pillows are going for less.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024
Choose to restore and relax or energize and rediscover your sense of play with some fun activities—here the options are all literally on your doorstep.
Find your Zen in your own 4,000-square-foot spa zone, quietly padding from steam room to Vichy shower, from hot tub to cold plunge.
—Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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The plate seems to reference Oct. 7, when Hamas militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people and kidnapping about 250.Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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On the chart dated March 18, 2023, One Thing stormed atop both the all-genre Billboard 200 as well as Top Country Albums with a whopping 501,000 equivalent album units earned in its first week.Jim Asker, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2024
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The open cluster Westerlund 1 is located roughly 12,000 light-years away, residing behind a huge interstellar cloud of gas and dust.Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2024
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Tips on how to view astronomical events: The best conditions to see the night sky will be with clear skies without clouds or haze.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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Detectives blanketed The Oz and other areas where teens hung out, asking them about the missing girls and about Cox. Rumors, already simmering, started to boil.Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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Stir in cream, gently boil for 5 minutes more, and spoon the sauce over the chicken, potatoes, and vegetables.Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2024
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This torch is strong, which helps push the smoke down.Andrew Watman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
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Outdoor air is often suffused with formaldehyde gas from cars, smoke, factories, and oil and gas extraction, sometimes at worrying levels that are predicted to worsen with climate change.Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Franklin Fire started raging through the coastal California town on Monday, growing to nearly 4,000 acres by Wednesday afternoon.Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
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Her son left the family home in Hasaka in northern Syria in 2013 during one of the many escalations of the war which had at that point been raging for more than two years.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
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So can breathing in the fumes be bad for your health?Sherri Gordon, Health, 3 Oct. 2024
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Who's going to help residents who may be permanently harmed by the styrene fumes released that day?Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2024
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The pair, who met as college undergrads, both burned with idealism and recognized their privilege could be leveraged for a game-changing idea.Carole Horst, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
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The Ellen MacArthur Foundation promotes circular fashion and says that, in the United States, an amount of clothing equal to a garbage truck is ferried to landfills or burned every second.Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
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That biopharma companies and banks would handle personal data today in the same way platforms like Meta or Snapchat might have a decade ago.Gregory Francis, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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It isn’t issued by governments or banks, so there’s no central authority.Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Steam.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steam. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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