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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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Open the valve, let the air rush in and, well after the hissing has stopped, close it back up.—
Ashley Braun,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
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Opening its valve enables water to flow into the sphere, and this drives a turbine and a generator that feed electricity into the grid.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 May 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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