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Recent Examples of steamer
For more than 150 years, the passenger steamer Lac La Belle had been missing in the depths of Lake Michigan.
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger steamer that sank in a storm in Lake Michigan on Oct. 14, 1872.
—George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Use a clothes steamer to help the fibers relax.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2026
On sale for $25, this travel steamer is lightweight, compact, and has a quick heat-up time, plus a rotating head for easy, thorough steaming.
—Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
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Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Nearly 150 years to the day after it was lost, shipwreck divers discovered the remains of the Lac La Belle, a passenger steamer that sank in a storm in Lake Michigan on Oct. 14, 1872.
—George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Use a clothes steamer to help the fibers relax.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 9 Feb. 2026
On sale for $25, this travel steamer is lightweight, compact, and has a quick heat-up time, plus a rotating head for easy, thorough steaming.
—Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
Noun
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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Feb. 2026
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Tom Townsend, a former Putnam County school superintendent, said his family operated steamship tours showcasing the Ocklawaha before construction of the dam.—
David Bauerlein,
Florida Times-Union,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The use of a memoir as a framing device isn’t a particularly original idea, and the sight of Tommy continuing to tap away at the keyboard while riding on a canal barge is borderline laughable.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2026
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Workers using an excavator stationed on a barge filled more than 72 bins, each holding up to 20 cubic yards of waste, with debris from the water, much of which was doused in oil.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Such reboosts have historically been done by Russia's Progress freighter.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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It was converted to a bulk freighter in 1869.—
George Petras,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Take a pastry cutter or sharp knife and cut straight down the center, and stack one half on top of the other.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Beauty and Hygiene Supplies Metal tools such as eyelash curlers, tweezers, and nail cutters can be sanitized by submerging into hydrogen peroxide for 15-20 seconds, then wiping clean.—
Nishaa Sharma,
The Spruce,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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The Artifact Exhibition, an attraction on International Drive, added a black-glass necklace found in the debris field of a famed ship to its displays, and later started offering a virtual-reality add-on experience where visitors sit and tour parts of the ocean liner.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
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If your terracotta pot doesn’t have drainage holes, use it as a decorative cover and keep your plant in a liner with drainage.—
Alexandra Kelly,
Martha Stewart,
12 Mar. 2026
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Saudi Arabia and the UAE could approach storage constraints within three to four weeks if tanker flows remain restricted, excluding Saudi Arabia’s underground storage capacity, which is not captured in current modelling.—
Amena Bakr,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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Already, eight supertankers have loaded from the area this month, putting shipments on course for a record, according to tanker-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.—
Christine Burke,
Bloomberg,
8 Mar. 2026
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.—
Thomas Wendel,
National Review,
4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
10 Jan. 2019
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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