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Examples of tap water in a Sentence
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Of course, anyone worried about drinking plastic could turn to tap water, which typically has lower concentrations of microplastics and other contaminants, and is hundreds of times cheaper than water from a plastic bottle.
—Joseph Winters / Grist, Popular Science, 23 May 2024
Some areas of Mexico City have long been without sufficient tap water, including Iztapalapa, a working-class community and the capital’s most populous borough with 1.8 million people.
—Somini Sengupta César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 May 2024
At least 45% of U.S. tap water is estimated to contain one or more forever chemicals, and one drinking water expert told me that the cost of removing them all would likely reach $100 billion.
—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 20 May 2024
If that is not enough, people pay for private trucks or, in extreme cases, illegally tap water lines.
—Somini Sengupta César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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“Tap water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tap%20water. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
tap water
noun
: water as it comes from a tap (as in a home)
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