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n. - A machine that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air.

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  • We have a tumble-dryer, but we also have a bathroom that has a gas-powered drying facility, and gas, my wife assures me, is cheaper than electricity.
  • The moment she got back, she promised herself, she would persuade Humphrey to marry her; never mind the tumble-dryer and the fitted carpets, they could come later.
  • She was surprised when she heard him on the phone, not that she could hear what he was saying as the tumble-dryer sounded like an express train shuddering through the...
  • Puffed-up politicians on both sides of the House seek from new arrivals a pledge of citizenship that endorses "Australian values" at a time when our values are tangled in a...
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