spouts 1 of 2

plural of spout
1
as in gutters
a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof during the winter, runoff from the spout tends to freeze over and form a dangerous patch of ice on the walkway

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as in jets
a usually forceful stream of fluid discharged from a narrow opening kids cooling off under the spout of water from an opened fire hydrant

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spouts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of spout

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Recent Examples of spouts
Noun
And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026 Cascading waterfall spouts that line the middle of the pool, meantime, are specially angled to target stress points on your body. Tim Chan, HollywoodReporter, 12 July 2026 Some of the water spouts reached between 20 feet and 30 feet, geologists said. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 June 2026 Glorious sculptures entangled in water spouts were erected across the city over the next century. Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 11 June 2026 Lids and spouts can quickly become traps for mold, bacteria, and grime, especially in hard-to-reach crevices. Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026 The icebergs, the porpoising penguins, the whale spouts visible from the deck—the sensory experience accumulated quickly into something overwhelming. Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026 The last step is to reattach your showerhead and turn on the water to flush any remaining vinegar from the spouts. Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 For faucet handles and spouts, use a baking soda paste. Kate Van Pelt, The Spruce, 1 May 2026
Verb
Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off. E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025 Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spouts
Noun
  • As a storm approaches, secure outdoor items, reinforce entry points, clear gutters, and know utility shut-off locations.
    Jamie Gold, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • These fiery particles seek out the smallest vulnerabilities, lodging in gutters, slipping through attic vents or settling into dry debris near your home.
    Neil Collins, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
Noun
  • The expenditure of those munitions goes along with other losses of materiel, including fighter jets, airborne early warning and reconnaissance planes, helicopters and drones.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • The new seat is available on select Boeing 777 planes and Airbus A350 jets, and by the end of 2025, Air France expects them to be installed on 80% of its fleet.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The public is increasingly skeptical of allowing the AI industry to govern itself, which is pushing legislators to rethink their hands-off approach, even as AI money pours like Niagara Falls into elections.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
  • The sun pours through its many gaps, creating a constellation of light that illuminates the forest floor below.
    Liam Scott, Washington Post, 24 July 2026
Verb
  • And his ultimate war is with Bob, a tech CEO who rants about his haters and has gotten rich off rebranded snake oil and whose obvious corruption has been obscured by his self-mythologizing.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • One grumbles when the driver rants about development’s ravages.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This development forcibly ejects the mild-mannered mammal into both his parents’ den and the wild — literally — world of dating, where smelling suitors’ pee takes the place of an app profile.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • At the same time, a salty liquid containing calcium chloride (a salt often used to de-ice roads) is pumped through the regenerator, which carries the heat away and ejects it to the surroundings on exit.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • In the United States the show streams on the ESPN App and requires an ESPN Unlimited plan.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Still, Rogan’s The Joe Rogan Experience, which streams on Spotify, finished in the top spot.
    Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • That shift matters because judgment, not technical execution, is becoming what separates a good analyst from a tool that just spits out answers.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • The most forceful argument to this end comes during a sequence in Hades, when Sinon (Elliot Page, giving the film’s best performance) essentially spits on Odysseus’s ethical and narrative framework for the world.
    Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Authorities blame successive, record-breaking heat waves and climate change for supercharging the blazes, as Europe rushes water-dumping aircraft, masks and thousands of firefighters to contain rapidly shifting fire fronts.
    Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
  • Google rushes to make changes Risking even higher fines for delaying updates, Google does not appear to be depending on Trump quickly stepping in to block the fines.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 23 July 2026

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