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Recent Examples of steamer
Unlike a steamer, Bounce’s spray is tiny enough to go inside your toiletry bag, which saves so much room in your carry-on.
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Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Unlike a traditional steamer, the Quuejenl steamer also has a dry function that performs tasks where an iron may be better suited, like creating delicate pleats or pressing shirt collars.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Bossel suggests using a steamer to blast seams, crevices, and furniture legs with sustained heat—10 to 30 seconds per section.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The businessman, who at the time operated a restaurant in a three-story Mississippi-style paddle steamer on Sentosa island, dreamed of turning the ship into a venture that could benefit Christian charitable causes.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
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Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 14 Sep. 2025
Unlike a traditional steamer, the Quuejenl steamer also has a dry function that performs tasks where an iron may be better suited, like creating delicate pleats or pressing shirt collars.
—Maggie Horton, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Bossel suggests using a steamer to blast seams, crevices, and furniture legs with sustained heat—10 to 30 seconds per section.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Aug. 2025
The businessman, who at the time operated a restaurant in a three-story Mississippi-style paddle steamer on Sentosa island, dreamed of turning the ship into a venture that could benefit Christian charitable causes.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
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This is my mother’s story that cannot be deleted, this is her legit experiences on steamship of American democracy.—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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However, in March photos emerged of a series of new barge-like PLA ships dubbed Shuiqiao that can link together to form a loading dock from over a half-mile out to sea—drastically boosting Beijing’s land invasion potency.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Next summer, the plan is for a barge to bring over the drilling rig to start the first well.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The four crew members on board the plane, a Boeing 747 freighter, were rescued and sent to the hospital.—
Peter Guo,
NBC news,
20 Oct. 2025
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Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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There are 10 speeds for nearly any task, and there are also 10 attachments available that transform your mixer into a pasta maker, a veggie cutter and more.—
Christopher Murray
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FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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In addition to guarding Doncic, Kuminga looked comfortable launching bombs from behind the arc against a porous Lakers defense while also creating space as a cutter when Green had the ball at the elbow.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 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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Perhaps no single network has encapsulated the struggle more than Germany’s ProSieben, which has spent much of the past two years turning around a huge broadcast liner to become a digital-first business that places jack-of-all-trades streamer Joyn at the center.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Lip liner—a bona fide ’90s beauty hero—has had a major comeback in recent years.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
24 Oct. 2025
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The voyage comes eight years after a natural gas tanker transited the Northern Sea Route without an icebreaker, and signals growing strategic implications as ice coverage continues to shrink.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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However, a direct trip to Mars would require vast amounts of fuel, so SpaceX plans to use in-orbit refueling, where multiple tanker Starships transfer propellant to a main vehicle before departure.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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