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furnace

[fur-nis] / ˈfɜr nɪs /


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The Japanese company is investing about 900 million euros at its Slovakian operating unit to build an electric arc furnace and an air separation unit.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Once a book has been printed, all the letters used to make it are placed in a furnace and melted down for the next volume.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

"Every stage is crucial," explains master cymbalsmith Hasan Seker, a burly 56-year-old who co-founded Bosphorus Cymbals in 1996 and is sweating after hauling glowing blanks into and out of the furnace.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

“There was this weird vent, a furnace return, and a tiny cabinet with a door above it,” said Pete Lauenstein.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The weather was hot and the steam machine that pulled the chain logs through the blade had a big furnace that was always being stoked.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

Italy's government says the country's largest steel works must be converted to electric after a court-ordered shutdown of polluting furnaces but, as Rome seeks a buyer, critics say its plan is woefully unsubstantiated.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

While blast furnaces use coal-based fuel and are a major source of industrial CO2 emissions, electric arc furnaces melt recycled steel, resulting in lower carbon emissions.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Specialized vacuum furnaces required to make these parts have lead times of more than two years, according to Chiang.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

"We don't smell it any more, I guess that's because the blast furnaces have gone."

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Mark McClellan worked his way up from the Kaiser furnaces to management.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Across a tract of furnaced flints there came a wind of water, From yellow banks with tender hints of Tethys' white-armed daughter.

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall

Bake yourselves, kiln-dry yourselves, if you choose, in your furnaced houses at home, but, if you value your health, "reform that altogether" in Italy.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 by Various

And the winds blew with excessive heat, as if warmed by the breath of sighs furnaced forth by travellers grieved at being separated from their wives.

From Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India by Mrs. Howard Kingscote

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest.

From Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

There he lies and sleeps From year to year—in soft Australian nights, And through the furnaced noons, and in the times Of wind and wet!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall




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