furnace
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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
He said this could have implications for other parts of the UK steel industry such as the electric steel-making furnace in Port Talbot.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Energy-production facilities and the site’s blast furnace were damaged, and production processes have been partially halted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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
Moira took Aunt Elizabeth along the corridor of empty lockers, past the door to the gymnasium, and into the furnace room.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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"Above all, it is unclear who should cover the investment costs for installing the electric furnaces," he said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
At 19, Pierpaolo Seguso created his first glasswork in the furnaces of his family’s glassblowing factory: an elaborate vase he named “Isola.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
Often blocked or destroyed by the tumults of the Mountain’s furnaces, always that road was repaired and cleared again by the labours of countless orcs.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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
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
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
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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