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Subscribe to hear this story The Internal Revenue Service started accepting income-tax returns on Jan. 27, opening the spigots of refund money shortly thereafter.
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Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
The funding freeze threatened to at least temporarily cut off medical research institutions, hospitals, community health centers and others from the federal spigot.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
There is no imaginary spigot to magically make water appear at a wildfire, despite what Trump claims.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
But with President Joe Biden’s election in 2020, the money spigot opened like a gusher.
—Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
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Russ Wiles, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
The funding freeze threatened to at least temporarily cut off medical research institutions, hospitals, community health centers and others from the federal spigot.
—Maya Goldman, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
There is no imaginary spigot to magically make water appear at a wildfire, despite what Trump claims.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
But with President Joe Biden’s election in 2020, the money spigot opened like a gusher.
—Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spigot
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Trump then vowed to sign an executive order to open up the water valves in the area.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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All power has been shut off in the area, along with the gas valves on either side of the broken gas line, Hopkins said.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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