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spout

[spout] / spaʊt /


NOUN
projection though which water is ejected
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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

A spruce branch threaded through the spout as a filter.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

Advice givers end up asking about three questions in response to every one they are posed, and they spout a lot of general advice to avoid being wrong.

From MarketWatch Jan. 9, 2026

One end was a gunlike butt with a trigger, and the other end looked like an elongated bubble with a spout popping out.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

Peter: Can Rangers please employ someone to edit the post-match interview drivel that spouts from the head coach?

From BBC Sep. 28, 2025

But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.

From Los Angeles Times May 17, 2025

The tattoo-dappled Norwegian spouts opinions without fear, once boasting that he could beat Kerr “blindfolded.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2025

It is nutrient-packed, like the rest of its cruciferous brethren, yet it has not always garnered the same respect as cauliflower, Brussels spouts or even broccoli.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2024

Ben’s Noise is humming a little tune out near one of the irrigashun spouts so I take a turn and head across the field toward him.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

They misquoted him to his face, misrepresented his work, and spouted cocksure inanities showing with every word that, scientifically speaking, they have no idea what they’re talking about.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2024

However, Hunga Tonga spouted an unusually high amount of water and low amount of cooling sulfur.

From Seattle Times Aug. 8, 2023

His crazy ideas, constantly spouted on a variety of platforms, have enable him to seem almost legitimate.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2023

He spouted off facts nonstop as he looked at each picture.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea

During their closing arguments in November, the deputy prosecutors said the companies' behaviour had been "unacceptable", accusing them of "spouting nonsense and pulling arguments out of thin air".

From BBC May 21, 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

But much of what they are spouting is self-help, internet based, anecdotal nonsense.

From Salon Jul. 16, 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

In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom




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