as in boiled
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 steamed
It’s then dissolved into half-and-half and steamed, and milk is added (non-dairy milk options are also available) along with any additional flavors the customer might request.
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
Mantou is typically steamed, but at Pig and Tiger, it’s baked and served as pull-apart buns.
—Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025
Blanching is a cooking method where vegetables are quickly boiled or steamed, then plunged into an ice bath to stop the cooking process.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
The world’s largest warship has steamed into the Caribbean and, with it, an old American question dressed up in new hardware.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 4 Dec. 2025
Mantou is typically steamed, but at Pig and Tiger, it’s baked and served as pull-apart buns.
—Brittany Anas, Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2025
Blanching is a cooking method where vegetables are quickly boiled or steamed, then plunged into an ice bath to stop the cooking process.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025
The world’s largest warship has steamed into the Caribbean and, with it, an old American question dressed up in new hardware.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamed
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Distilled water is water that has been boiled, causing the water molecules to return to a gaseous state and then condense back into liquid.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
9 Jan. 2026
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Then, the heat generated would have boiled the water away, removing the natural neutron moderator, shutting down the reactor – until things cooled off and water again flowed in among the rocks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Palisades fire burned for 24 days, destroying more than 6,800 structures, damaging countless others and forcing most of the neighborhood’s residents to move elsewhere.—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Brown, who was beaten with metal poles, bitten and burned with cigarettes, had his front teeth ripped out with pliers, prosecutors said.—
Muri Assuncao,
Mercury News,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Stars have now lost six straight games (0-3-3) after getting battered Tuesday night by those same Hurricanes that Colorado stormed back against three days prior.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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After Washington led by as many as 26 points late in the third quarter, the Magic stormed back and used a 42-18 run to cut their deficit to just two points with five minutes left in the game.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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In 1942, as desert warfare raged in North Africa, a crew of physiologists was dispatched to the Sonoran Desert to conduct experiments on soldiers.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside,
8 Jan. 2026
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That winter, the concrete spillway collapsed in one section during massive storms, prompting the evacuation of 188,000 people as water raged uncontrolled into the river below, and concerns grew that part of the dam might fail.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Steamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamed. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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