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Recent Examples of steamer
The Titanic’s owner, the White Star Line, chartered the Mackay-Bennett, a steamer normally used for repairing trans-Atlantic telegraph cables, to retrieve as many bodies as possible.
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Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Not to mention, 10 tablets for $13 make these steamers an excellent deal.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 16 Mar. 2025
Check out other travel tech deals, with portable chargers, clothing steamers, earbuds, and more on sale for up to 82 percent off.
—Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
Check out their roundup of products for a spa-like experience without leaving the house, from waffle bathrobes to facial steamers.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
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Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Not to mention, 10 tablets for $13 make these steamers an excellent deal.
—Annie Blackman, Allure, 16 Mar. 2025
Check out other travel tech deals, with portable chargers, clothing steamers, earbuds, and more on sale for up to 82 percent off.
—Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025
Check out their roundup of products for a spa-like experience without leaving the house, from waffle bathrobes to facial steamers.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamer
Noun
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Many arrived aboard elegant steamships, but the number of guests increased once regional railroads built tracks north to Mackinaw City in the early 1880s.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Moulton spent five weeks traveling by steamship, train and stagecoach to Santa Ana, arriving on May 6, 1874.—
Penny E Schwartz,
Oc Register,
19 May 2025
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But that changed in the 1950s after a barge, loaded with construction materials to build a school, got stuck near present-day Newtok and couldn’t navigate farther upriver.—
Emily Schwing,
ProPublica,
29 May 2025
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Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.—
Danielle Ofri,
New Yorker,
7 June 2025
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The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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The meat cutters would show up for work just as many of the clubgoers were going home.—
Ian Frazier,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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The Coast Guard also diverted the cutter Munro to the area, launched a C-130J Super Hercules aircrew from the air station in Kodiak, and positioned an MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter crew in Adak.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.—
Sean Kingsley,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Apr. 2024
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My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.—
Mike O’Brien,
The New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2023
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The center has been closed for a a maintenance project, including a new pool liner and tile replacement, but is scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, June 3.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
2 June 2025
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Some hammocks are suitable for sleeping in and have built-in liners and mosquito nets.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
30 May 2025
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Limp also spotlighted Blue Origin's work on zero-boil-off technology and the firm's Transporter tanker.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
4 June 2025
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Additionally, owners of tankers supplying fuel to squid fishers are not mandated to register these vessels within fleets that directly contact fishing vessels, creating a regulatory gap that enables support with a minimal record of activities.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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“Steamer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamer. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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