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headspring

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Definition of headspring

as in hot spring

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Recent Examples of headspring Visitors can stroll the park’s boardwalk—a one-third-mile stretch from the St. Johns River to the headspring—and watch from above as manatees float peacefully below, socializing or nursing their calves in the clear, warm water. — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2025 Cost is $2 per person to enter the park, which also serves up food at Paradise Treats and Spring Side Cafe, a viewing deck of the headspring and paved walkways that run along the Silver River and through ornamental gardens. — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017

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Treating the Hot Spring Like a Pool Visiting a hot spring or sento public bath is a literal immersion in a bathing culture that has lasted more than a millennium.

— Jessica Kozuka, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2026
The animals have been seen on airport runways, walking on golf courses, roaming near schools and causing panic in supermarkets and hot spring resorts almost on a daily basis.

— CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Definition of hot spring

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After three years in North Carolina state prisons — first Anson, then Western Correctional — that ended this spring, Griffin had nowhere to go.

— Amber Gaudet July 18, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026
Tincon last spring said the concerns were unfounded and described itself as a responsible corporate neighbor, but ended up withdrawing its application before a vote.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 July 2026

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Studies show that cooling towers and other warm, wet environments like hot tubs, spas, fountains and some plumbing systems are particularly vulnerable to Legionella bacteria.

— Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Imagine one over Italy’s Mount Etna during a strombolian eruption or in Hawaii with Kilauea’s fountains in the foreground.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

Definition of fountain

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For much of her defining run, Lizzo was emblematic of an idyllic extramusical experiment, her songs a wellspring for yas queen enthusiasm.

— Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 16 June 2026
The collection’s wellspring is the late-19th century and early-20th ceramics of Nampeyo of Hano (Tewa) and Maria Martinez (San Ildefonso).

— Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

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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
The board pointed to the 46th annual OB Street Fair & Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, June 27, along Newport Avenue as a possible fountainhead of public input, given the usual thousands of people who attend.

— Steven Mihailovich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026

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