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Savery

British  
/ ˈseɪvərɪ /

noun

  1. Thomas. ?1650–1715, English engineer, who built (1698) the first practical steam engine, used to pump water from mines

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Savery selected a pair of ruby earrings and paid him $5,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Savery has always enjoyed using his size to run over tacklers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

Richard Savery, one of the researchers, says, “You’ll get a word like ‘storm’, and then it’ll generate a whole bunch of related words, like ‘rain’.”

From NewsForKids.net ● Apr. 1, 2024

Shane Savery, 48, of Normandy Park, made a three-year commitment on one of four lower-bowl corner tickets with three friends and said they’re concerned about declining secondary market demand.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

Moreover, absent from Papin’s design was a simple device employed by Savery: the use of a spray of water over the cylinder to cool it in order to speed the condensation of the steam.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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