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Recent Examples of cisternAccording to fire officials, tanker shuttles were used to bring water to the fire from a 10,000-gallon cistern on Hazel Woods Drive and a hydrant on Washington Road.—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Mar. 2025 Alongside the two pairs of identical twins, it was also discovered that a quarter of the remains tested had a close relative in the cistern.—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 14 June 2024 Brazil has built one million cisterns in its semiarid northeast to ensure adequate water supplies during extended dry seasons.—Alice Hill, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2025 The ruins of ancient temples, roads, a harbor and a cistern for collecting rainwater lie near Turkey’s western coast.—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cistern
Made with 99 percent Sauvignon Blanc and 1 percent Sémillon, it was fermented in equal parts stainless steel tank, concrete vats, and large format neutral oak then aged on its lees for 10 months.
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Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
12 May 2025
When speed and/or fine detailing are particularly important, however, a process called vat photopolymerization (VP) may be used instead.
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