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
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
Everyone’s an influencer, anyone can spout at you, and sorting through that, I think, must just be mind-boggling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
When tropical rains battered the building earlier this month, leaks seemed to spout from everywhere, said one 40-year-old man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
Things that spout fire and smoke, as shown in C.C.’s books!
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Another says, "He never spouts empty, feel-good platitudes; instead, he crouches down to face real-life dilemmas alongside us."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
But he says he doesn’t think twice about what someone spouts behind a screen.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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
Sales of food pouches — soft bags with plastic spouts for easy consumption — have increased 900% since 2010, overtaking jarred purees as the predominant baby food on the market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
It came out of the long spouts in two streams into the big cup.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
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
Mr Hancock tweeted that "disgusting and dangerous anti-semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society".
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023
In the darkness at the edge of the floe, killer whales spouted gustily.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Avatar Musk, meant to appear like AI slop and spouting commentary culled from the totality of his recorded interviews, is pretty gimmicky.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
And rather than fly under the radar, Marler took the risk of spouting his theories openly, and was arguably the most bullish at the roundtables, even managing to ruffle Carr's feathers.
From BBC ● Nov. 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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