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Recent Examples of spigot
That ruling opened the spigots: twelve such injunctions were issued during the Obama Administration, sixty-four during the first Trump Administration, and fourteen during the first three years of the Biden Administration, according to a 2024 Harvard Law Review study.
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
And at the end of the day, at some point, which is obviously now, the spigot needs to close.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
Also joining the lawsuit are Democratic cities and state governments arguing that the federal spigot is about to be turned off.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2025
Indeed, to her critics, the spigot of novels, plays, memoir, pop song lyrics and screenplays may have had more than a whiff of the dilettantish.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
And at the end of the day, at some point, which is obviously now, the spigot needs to close.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
Also joining the lawsuit are Democratic cities and state governments arguing that the federal spigot is about to be turned off.
—Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 18 May 2025
Indeed, to her critics, the spigot of novels, plays, memoir, pop song lyrics and screenplays may have had more than a whiff of the dilettantish.
—Sadie Stein, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spigot
valve
Noun
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The May 6 attempt was scrubbed two hours before liftoff because of valve on ULA’s upper Centaur stage that teams continue to investigate.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 June 2025
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The Cardiovascular segment includes heart rhythm devices, heart valves, and vascular therapies for treating cardiac and circulatory conditions.—
Joe Cornell,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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