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Recent Examples of spigot
One spigot is United to House LA, the 2022 city measure popularly known as the mansion tax.
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The teachers and administrators don’t work with the safety net of the always-running state spigot.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Yes, but: Don't worry, your spigot is not about to go dry.
—Asher Price, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
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Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
The teachers and administrators don’t work with the safety net of the always-running state spigot.
—Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 10 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
Yes, but: Don't worry, your spigot is not about to go dry.
—Asher Price, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spigot
valve
Noun
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Maybe as battery tech evolves, the DRAGON drone will return as the envy of all drones, snaking its way through the skies, turning on and off industrial water valves everywhere.—
Joe Salas
May 31,
New Atlas,
31 May 2025
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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