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geyser

noun

Definition of geyser

as in fountain

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as in spit

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Recent Examples of geyser This movie needs to start in the first minute with a giant oil well-style geyser of blood, and part of it is signalling excess and campiness. — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026 As the gas rapidly accumulates within these tiny crevices, the bubbles expand almost instantaneously and push the beverage violently out of the bottle to create a soda fountain, also called a geyser. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026 The impact sent the second vehicle into a fire hydrant, causing a geyser to erupt, and into the side of a car dealership. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026 When not displaying geyser-like activity, the pool was actively boiling. — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for geyser

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Noun

To the right, artificial houseplants stand in a currently dry fountain bedecked in blue light, and presided over by statue holding a candelabra-style light fixture like a torch.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Nearby is Mastro's steakhouse, and right outside is a canopy of majestic oak trees and cascading fountains.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of fountain

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Among the celebrities at the spring ’27 show were Rosalia, Teyana Taylor, Sadie Sink, Tate McRae, Pamela Anderson, Katie Holmes, Gemma Chan and Emily Ratajkowski.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
The first closed the spring bear season and ended the use of bait and hounds to pursue black bears.

— Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of spring

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After between 30 to 45 seconds with Packard in his mouth, the whale had risen to the surface and spat him out, sending him flying through the air in a massive spray that was witnessed by his crewmate and another nearby mariner.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
One easy solution is to irrigate your nose with a saline spray or rinse, says Amin.

— Andee Tagle, NPR, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of spray

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Her works draw upon wellsprings of both textile history and technical innovation.

— Leslie Camhi, Vogue, 15 Sep. 2026
The Birchmore case was also a wellspring for those seeking the Norfolk DA job, with a review of the Stoughton Police Explorers youth program, and others like it, being a significant part of Perkins’ platform.

— Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of wellspring

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Shuting Qiu’s lineup of vivid patterns and billowing silhouettes offered a burst of color and optimism to the city.

— Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Even during historically warm winters, intense cold snaps, lake-effect bursts, and major individual snowstorms remain entirely possible.

— Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of burst

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Their destination was the ancestral hearth, spiritual fountainhead, and reliquary of antiquities, the country home of the Wariboko war-canoe family.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
Drummer Booker Stardrum sits behind the kit for rising jazz jammers SML, while Moog player Ben Vida co-founded the turn-of-the-century minimalist-ambient group Town & Country, and logged time in post-emo fountainhead Joan of Arc.

— Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026

Definition of fountainhead

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Swiss company Metafuels is working to convert clean electricity into jet fuel, while RIFT and Enerin, based in the Netherlands and Norway respectively, are delivering high-temperature industrial heat from electrons instead of gas.

— Sophie Dembinski, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
Nevertheless, watching a sports car flip upside down and land on cold-gas jets was proof enough that flying cars are moving out of science fiction and onto the runway.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026

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