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Recent Examples of cistern
Louisville had a system of cisterns and wells by 1823, an official history of the city's fire department shows.
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Nov. 2025
The site included installations for processing grapes, along with cisterns used to supply water and grinding stones.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
—Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Where a cistern once hid beneath the floor to collect rainwater, an outdoor pool now glimmers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Nov. 2025
The site included installations for processing grapes, along with cisterns used to supply water and grinding stones.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
—Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Where a cistern once hid beneath the floor to collect rainwater, an outdoor pool now glimmers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cistern
Noun
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Empty the tub, and rinse the foam with clean water until the water runs clean.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
18 Feb. 2026
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Crafted of solid marble, the primary bath’s 18th-century French tub had to be craned through the windows.—
Christine Lennon,
Architectural Digest,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In the fluorescent glare of a rundown Indonesian wig factory, vats of human hair simmer in huge cauldrons, stirred by hunched laborers as rows of mannequin heads watch blankly from the dark.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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It was kept in interconnected wooden vats that were periodically filled with rums of various origins, but never completely emptied, making it effectively an enormous and complex solera rum.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Cistern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cistern. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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