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Recent Examples of steamer
Crucially, Shull posted a map showing that the Cars land could be integrated into Frontierland without removing the Rivers of America, the island and the steamer along with it.
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Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2025
While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2025
What is the difference between a (portable) steamer and iron?
—Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
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Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
Use a Steamer Using a handheld clothing steamer is probably the most popular alternative to traditional ironing.
—Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2025
While steaming, be sure to hold the steamer nozzle upright so hot water doesn't spill or dribble out.
—Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Apr. 2025
What is the difference between a (portable) steamer and iron?
—Kristine Thomason, Vogue, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
Noun
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2025
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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 Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
20 Mar. 2025
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Related article Recovery of DC jet wreckage begins as investigators review new information The wreckage was transferred, one piece at a time, from a barge to a flatbed truck parked only a couple of hundred feet from the airport’s main runway.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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The companies had ordered hundreds of new freighters when flush with cash from the boom in global trade during the pandemic.—
Peter Eavis,
New York Times,
21 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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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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Cord cutters who don’t have Verizon can get some of the best Disney+ deals with the Disney Bundle Duo or Trio plans that also include Hulu and/or ESPN+ starting at $10.99 per month; or the Disney+, Hulu and Max bundle starting at $16.99 monthly with ads.—
Danielle Directo-Meston,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
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The wholesale market got a yellow placard after county inspectors spotted old food accumulation on the ceiling panel above the meat cutter.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
18 Apr. 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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That’s a swipe of fire engine red lipstick, huge lashes, and sweeping black liner.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
16 Apr. 2025
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Originally opened in 2014, the 354-room hotel was designed to recall a 1920s transatlantic cruise liner.—
Regan Stephens,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Apr. 2025
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The overnight strike on the Ras Isa port sent massive fireballs billowing skyward and turned tanker trucks into burning wrecks.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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Satellite images reveal additional deployments, including KC-135 refueling tankers.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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