spigot

Example Sentences

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“When does the spigot stop? When do we stop throwing away money?” asked Burgess, who wants to see subsidies shrink.

From Salon

At the same time, use of the Fed’s standing repo facility — seen as a liquidity spigot for financial institutions in search of short-term cash to finance their operations — increased in late October.

From MarketWatch

The spigot will reopen next week with important reports from Nvidia, which will shed new light on the AI trade, and from Home Depot, Walmart and Target, which will provide an important state-of-the-consumer update.

From Barron's

“They can turn the spigot on or off whenever they want to.”

From MarketWatch

“They can turn these spigots on or off whenever they need to,” Sansoterra said of Big Tech’s capital expenditures.

From MarketWatch