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as in stove
an appliance that prepares food for consumption by heating it a portable gas-fired cooker that's perfect for camping trips

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as in chef
a person who prepares food by some manner of heating Dad was the traditional cooker of the big Sunday breakfast

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Recent Examples on the Web This portable cooker is designed for convenience, adding a modern twist to your everyday cooking routine. Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024 Rice cooker: on sale for $28.39 Original price: $34.99 This rice cooker will perfect your rice cooking. Nora Colomer, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2024 In response, over the past 60 years, like chefs operating a sous vide machine to produce the perfect bite, steelmakers—their cookers arc furnaces reaching thousands of degrees Fahrenheit, with robots doing the cooking—have created a vast variety of steels to match every need. John Johnson Jr., Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024 The introduction of running water, gas and electric cookers, vacuums, and washing machines helped liberate women from domestic labor. Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2015 See all Example Sentences for cooker 

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“Cooker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cooker. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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