steamer
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A travel steamer can help him stay crease-free on every adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
These are foam or gel-filled toys of various brands shaped like bao buns, and sometimes sold in plastic replicas of bamboo steamer baskets.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
He left behind a massive steamer trunk full of manuscripts, many of which were attributed to artists not named Fernando Pessoa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026
When they served their first steamer of dim sum in 1933, a refined ambiance drew the elite clientele of the era.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2025
He’d built the frame from long beams, the roof and walls from decking, the chimney from a vent pipe off a lost steamer, one window from a porthole.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
Portable steamers are cheap and easy to use.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Seven years hence, the entrepreneurial machinist founded Moran Brothers dry dock, which over two decades built steamers; barges; and the USS Nebraska, a battleship active from 1904 to 1923.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
For the past 20 years she has instead worked maintaining electrical items, such as water purifiers and clothes steamers, in people's homes.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
Maybe she skimped on verbal and physical affection, favoring a love language that expressed itself in steamers full of dumplings or plates of sliced fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2022
They are inward toward the other, bound and joined by carnival dolls and the steamers that sailed from ports they never saw.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
