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Recent Examples of fire hydrant
Wilson was built like a fire hydrant at 190 pounds and produced huge power.
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Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Years later, one of his political opponents printed a flier with a red fire hydrant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Many new residents will likely aggravate current practices of illegally parking in front of fire hydrants, in handicapped zones, blocking alley entrances and corner tow zones that are essential for the passage of school buses and emergency vehicles.
—Steve Weinshel, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Fire Hydrant Red When selling, fire hydrant red is not recommended for living rooms or bedrooms.
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
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Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Years later, one of his political opponents printed a flier with a red fire hydrant.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 July 2025
Many new residents will likely aggravate current practices of illegally parking in front of fire hydrants, in handicapped zones, blocking alley entrances and corner tow zones that are essential for the passage of school buses and emergency vehicles.
—Steve Weinshel, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025
Fire Hydrant Red When selling, fire hydrant red is not recommended for living rooms or bedrooms.
—Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fire hydrant
Noun
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Outside a laundromat on West Burnside Avenue, an open fire hydrant made a Las Vegas-worthy fountain that cooled passersby.—
Robert Sullivan,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Those hydrants were at Lehigh Avenue at Churchill Street, Lehigh Avenue at Dempster Street, the north side of Dempster Street halfway between Lehigh Avenue and Birch Avenue, and Dempster Street at Birch Avenue, the Facebook post states.—
Jessi Virtusio,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Pay attention to where the kitchen and bathrooms are, too—water supply and waste pipes for the second floor are often found in walls on the first floor, below sinks, tubs, or showers.—
Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
25 May 2023
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Cathcart is referring to the plumbing that the vanity's sink and faucet connect to—the water lines and waste pipe connect to the underside of the sink via the bendy P-trap pipe.—
Kristina McGuirk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2023
Noun
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The music thumped away, though at reduced volume, the bats performed their acrobatics over the pool, the hash pipe glowed, people began to yawn.—
T. Coraghessan Boyle,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
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Zajicek, signed in the offseason, had thus far played all his hockey in his native Czechia but looked right at home between the pipes for the B’s.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The loitering munition systems empowers the warfighter with quick and easy deployment via tube-launch, and the capability to fly, track and engage non-line-of-sight targets and armored vehicles with precision lethal effects without the need for external ISR or fires assets.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Sep. 2025
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Some include the Madrid train bombings, where 193 died in 2004, the 2005 London tube bombings with 56 dead, and an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester where 23 were killed in 2017.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s also a small but significant structural design change with a front brake cooling duct being added for more reliable operation.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Sep. 2025
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In the final scene, Slightly enters the lab and drags Arthur's body into an air duct, continuing his mission to get Morrow a Xenomorph.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Commonly, business leaders, tech journalists, and anyone with a yen to follow the top changes in AI will take a look at what top consultants have to say.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Arkansas ranks high as a national leader in the school choice movement, the head of the state's Educational Freedom Accounts program said Thursday, citing standings from several think tanks and advocacy groups.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Western States Petroleum Association has been warning California lawmakers since last year that dwindling Central Valley oil production risked shuttering pipelines such as the San Pablo Bay conduit.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 Sep. 2025
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By February, Dudek had become the conduit between DOGE and the SSA, alerting top agency officials that DOGE wanted to work at headquarters.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His fireplug vitality surrendered only to his untamed playing, boogie feel and volumes upon volumes of mesmerizing riffs.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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At 41 inches tall and 161 pounds per side, this fireplug of a speaker delivers impressive dynamic range at realistic (live music) levels and will admirably fill all but the most gigantic spaces with detailed yet unfatiguing sound.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Fire hydrant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fire%20hydrant. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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