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boiler

[boi-ler] / ˈbɔɪ lər /


NOUN
caldron
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NOUN
kettle
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He’d return with images of abandoned stairwells, dilapidated neon signage, Art Deco theater facades, boiler room control valves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

"My dad spent most of his working life as a boiler operator at Cadbury's in Bournville working shifts to provide for us all," Sarah recalls.

From BBC ● May 14, 2026

Quasar alleges the encampment damaged the boiler and created the crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

It has a boiler that an insurance provider described as being in “extremely poor condition” before canceling coverage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

We walk into an old boiler room with machinery that emerges from the darkness so suddenly I hit it with my knees and elbows.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

With natural gas accounting for 12% of German power generation, and with half of German homes fitted with gas boilers, German households are also being affected.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

There is also the green transition to pay for, with the household set to shell out £11 million a year replacing old gas boilers with new heat pumps at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Heat pumps run on electricity instead of gas, and are more efficient than traditional boilers.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026

That squeezed budgets for funding heat pumps, which cost more upfront than boilers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

No matter where you were on the ship, you felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson


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