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Recent Examples of cistern
Louisville had a system of cisterns and wells by 1823, an official history of the city's fire department shows.
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Nov. 2025
The site included installations for processing grapes, along with cisterns used to supply water and grinding stones.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
—Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Where a cistern once hid beneath the floor to collect rainwater, an outdoor pool now glimmers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Nov. 2025
The site included installations for processing grapes, along with cisterns used to supply water and grinding stones.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
—Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Where a cistern once hid beneath the floor to collect rainwater, an outdoor pool now glimmers.
—Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cistern
Noun
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First, fill the tub with warm water and dissolve one tablet, or one-half tablet for sinks.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
11 Feb. 2026
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Housemade samosas were not marked with ingredients or allergen information, and roasted barley was stored in a Sterilite tub, which is not a food-safe container.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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It was kept in interconnected wooden vats that were periodically filled with rums of various origins, but never completely emptied, making it effectively an enormous and complex solera rum.—
Tony Sachs,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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At the end of Terminator 2, when Schwarzenegger sacrifices himself in a vat of molten steel in front of the boy, 8-year-old David started to cry.—
Reeves Wiedeman,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Cistern.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cistern. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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