faucet
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Turning off the faucet: Antiretroviral therapy doesn't eliminate HIV altogether, but it minimizes its ability to replicate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then we visited the robotics classroom, where he turned on a faucet, and the flow was closer to the color of apple juice than water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“Even if the strait were to effectively open tomorrow, you can’t turn the faucet back on,” Angie Gildea, global head of oil and gas at KPMG, told MarketWatch in March.
From MarketWatch ● May 24, 2026
“Even if there is a good resolution, this isn’t a faucet that can turn back on. We don’t have a peace button you can push to restart those wells.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
“He promised to fix the faucet in the bathtub if I’d just get out of his way. Said he couldn’t tackle the job with me standin’ there watchin’ him fail.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
For the hardware, the couple will be replacing the existing silver-toned metal with gold, including new faucets, new drawer handles, and new knobs for the cupboards.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
The idea came about after another co-founder, a coder and glassblowing artist named Jim McKelvey, couldn’t sell one of his sculptural glass faucets because he couldn’t accept credit cards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
The plumber is here but the faucets aren’t.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2025
Las Flores has recommended to customers that when they resume using water, they take various steps to flush the household system, including running all the faucets for at least five minutes before using.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Now in the alleys she saw men washing themselves at open faucets.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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