steamer
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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 was chased down as a fugitive aboard a Turkish steamer, returned to the U.S. for trial—and acquitted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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
"William was on the sprouts, getting his sprouts ready so they could go into the steamer, and Prince George was helping with the Yorkshire puddings," said Mr Clarke.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
It was a big old steamer trunk latched with a giant rusting padlock.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
Posters advertising the sales showed steamers merrily plying the imagined waters of the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
Later, when the automobile ban was lifted, we’d take the car with us on the Gay Head or the Sankaty, the steamers which plied between the mainland and the island.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
