furnace
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Its condition is woeful—as the young woman owner explains, the photo spent years on top of the furnace in the basement of the family home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
You might go out to work and let the house cool down; then return home and fire up the furnace.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
Unlike a gas furnace, which burns fuel to create heat, a heat pump compresses and expands a refrigerant, like a refrigerator in reverse.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
What better way to spend it than in the furnace of the Old Firm.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026
When the telephone went off, so did the electricity, and the furnace wouldn’t run without electricity.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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