spout
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Its stars form a shape that resembles a teapot, including a handle, lid, and spout.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Countless LinkedIn pages spout something about residing at the intersection of sport and fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Inside, the music continues: Grampy strips the knobs from his gas stove and connects the resulting length of pipe to a teapot’s spout.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
I don’t like to spout clichés, but you do have to put your own oxygen mask on first in this situation.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
Then, blowing a huge spout of snotty air, it slid backward off the boat and back under the water and was gone.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
But he says he doesn’t think twice about what someone spouts behind a screen.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
“There’s 30% to 40% chance of thunderstorms on Monday. We could see damaging wind gusts, intense rainfall, water spouts or brief, weak tornadoes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
The tattoo-dappled Norwegian spouts opinions without fear, once boasting that he could beat Kerr “blindfolded.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2025
"They aren't designed to sail through tornadoes or water spouts."
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
These down spouts, through which the water from the roof fell to the ground, were carved to look like frightening creatures.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In April, at his first news conference since taking office, Kennedy spouted a fountain of misinformation about autism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
It was a Leavitt classic: she spouted utter nonsense with total conviction.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
However, Hunga Tonga spouted an unusually high amount of water and low amount of cooling sulfur.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
I hated the way they spouted water so easily, betraying me at every turn.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
But from my understanding, that’s exactly the kind of film Angel Studios is looking to distribute: a movie that seems like it’s saying something, when in reality, it’s spouting a whole lot of nothing.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
About a third of local workers are employed in mining and construction, a category that includes oil, and many more jobs indirectly depend on the money spouting out of oil wells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
At the same time, she is also uninterested in spouting the uplifting banalities that can make some celebrities seem calculated, as if every setback is just a marketing opportunity in disguise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
The scenes she has to work on the most are the ones where Morgan is spouting off facts, which are difficult to memorize and can’t sustain any improvisation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2025
Again her father’s special name for her was spouting from the mouth of a cocky young man.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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