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Recent Examples of spigot
Add a smart timer or meter to your outdoor spigot to shut off water flow to hoses and sprinklers.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
These factors—clinical effectiveness, high costs, surging demand, and now an open spigot of government reimbursement—create an attractive target for abuse.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
But the new emboldened second Trump administration has warned that sanctuary cities could face a number of penalties, including shutting off the spigot of federal money for transportation projects and policing.
—Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
Once the spigot is opened, there’s no shutting it off.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 18 July 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2025
These factors—clinical effectiveness, high costs, surging demand, and now an open spigot of government reimbursement—create an attractive target for abuse.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
But the new emboldened second Trump administration has warned that sanctuary cities could face a number of penalties, including shutting off the spigot of federal money for transportation projects and policing.
—Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
Once the spigot is opened, there’s no shutting it off.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spigot
valve
Noun
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The method also enables the placement of dense computational points in critical areas, such as the tire-road contact or the closure of heart valve leaflets.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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Set the container on top of the carafe and a valve at the base opens to drain out the concentrate.—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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