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Recent Examples of steamer
In 1892, a massive steel steamer, considered an engineering marvel of its time and revered for its speed and safety, got caught in a squall in the middle of Lake Superior and vanished.
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Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
Remove it first, then clean it with the steamer or wet machine.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Original Price: $350.00 Sale Price: $80.00 (77% off) Gotham Steel Hammered Copper 17-Piece Aluminum Nonstick Cookware Set
Including fry, sauce and baking pans, a stock pot, a steel steamer and a cookie sheet, this set is oven safe up to 500 degrees and can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
—Ho Lin, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
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(Walmart)
Throwing a bath bomb or shower steamer in your bath or shower is the perfect way to relax after a long day.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Lauren Liebhaber, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2025
Remove it first, then clean it with the steamer or wet machine.
—Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Original Price: $350.00 Sale Price: $80.00 (77% off) Gotham Steel Hammered Copper 17-Piece Aluminum Nonstick Cookware Set
Including fry, sauce and baking pans, a stock pot, a steel steamer and a cookie sheet, this set is oven safe up to 500 degrees and can be cleaned in a dishwasher.
—Ho Lin, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Lavender bath and shower bombs: $5.87 Image 1 of 2
(Walmart)
Throwing a bath bomb or shower steamer in your bath or shower is the perfect way to relax after a long day.
—Christopher Murray, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
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Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2025
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The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 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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Matthews’ fastball has averaged 97.1 mph for the Saints, compared to 94.9 mph for the Twins as a rookie last season, and the velocity on his slider and cutter are also up 2-3 mph.—
Aaron Gleeman,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Lindor laid down a textbook bunt down for a single, and Soto hit a cutter to the left-center warning track with one on and none out.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 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 rapper styled her hair into a blunt bob with bangs across her forehead and her signature dark lip liner.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Then, Naomi Campbell arrived at the Louvre for the first time in her career, marking the memory with a bouffant coif and her eyes encircled with dark liner.—
India Espy-Jones,
Essence,
10 Mar. 2025
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With past tanker seizures straining relations between Tehran and Washington, the move could escalate tensions further.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.—
Devendra Goyal,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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