Washing in example sentence

Thanks to the universal penetration of running water and electricity in the developed world and the widespread adoption of washing machines, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, dishwashers, stoves and microwaves, the amount of our lives that we forfeit to housework has fallen from 60 hours a week to fewer than 15 hours a week.

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The next thing that really was a big, big deal was the washing machine.

Everybody wanted one of these electric washing machines.

And as I said before, they hadn't invented the electric outlet either, so the washing machine was a particularly dangerous device.

And then a wonderful thing happened when I was in high school: gurus from the East started washing up on the shores of America.

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