boiler

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"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

Across the UK, 1.5m homes are heated by oil, usually a kind of kerosene burned in a boiler to heat water for radiators and hot water.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

In 2014 he helped break up the so-called boiler room scams operating from Spain that tricked British people into investing in non-existent shares.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

The boiler was not the same as the boilers I had worked on with my father, but I figured all boilers work the same way.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman