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Recent Examples of spigot
Government’s list of demands on Harvard grows Moving the goalposts on Harvard began even before the federal spigot started to tighten.
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Andy Rose, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Hook it to your outdoor spigot, connect the garden hose to a sprinkler, and dial up the settings your plants need.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 22 May 2025
That ruling opened the spigots: twelve such injunctions were issued during the Obama Administration, sixty-four during the first Trump Administration, and fourteen during the first three years of the Biden Administration, according to a 2024 Harvard Law Review study.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
And at the end of the day, at some point, which is obviously now, the spigot needs to close.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
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Andy Rose, CNN Money, 3 June 2025
Hook it to your outdoor spigot, connect the garden hose to a sprinkler, and dial up the settings your plants need.
—Clint Davis, People.com, 22 May 2025
That ruling opened the spigots: twelve such injunctions were issued during the Obama Administration, sixty-four during the first Trump Administration, and fourteen during the first three years of the Biden Administration, according to a 2024 Harvard Law Review study.
—Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
And at the end of the day, at some point, which is obviously now, the spigot needs to close.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spigot
valve
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 June 2025
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Meanwhile, for the USWNT, 2025 has been a rare release of the pressure valve that’s usually on the women’s game’s perennial winners.—
Meg Linehan,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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