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Examples
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STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
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For example, electric baseboard heaters and the ductwork in forced-air systems both click and clank as they heat up and cool down.
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Key upgrades included replacing the old oil furnace, which produced steam heat, with a high-efficiency gas furnace and a forced-air system, and insulating all the ducts and hot-water pipes.
Wendy Gordon: Where Everything's Waiting for You (Downtown) Wendy Gordon 2011
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One difference: After a bulb breaks, the EPA suggests leaving central forced-air heating and air conditioning off for several hours; the previous recommendation was 15 minutes.
EPA revises its recommendations on cleaning up broken CFLs 2011
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Little Dorrit's last dozen words, their forced-air consonants (recalling "affliction of vain breath" in Shelley) jostling each other as "the froward and the vain, fretted, and chafed" in the London rat race.
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Other common sources include forced-air heating and cooling systems, pets and paper.
How to get dust under control Gene Austin 2010
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The optional engine recommended by this column is the turbocharged (forced-air) Duramax 6. 6-liter diesel V-8 (397 horsepower, 765 foot-pounds of torque), linked to a heavy duty, six-speed Allison transmission.
Specs on the 2011 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 LT crew-cab pickup 2010
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STR8FAN is easily interpeted as “my car has a forced-air straight-8 engine”.
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The barn used to have conventional forced-air heat from three furnaces, supplemented by a wood stove.
When its Loudoun home burned, an inspired family launched a grand barn raising 2010
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Prelude may well hope the blessing is contagious, there and then in the forced-air burst of the so-far breezy enough "Oh."
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