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geyser

[gahy-zer, -ser, gee-zer] / ˈgaɪ zər, -sər, ˈgi zər /
NOUN
fountain
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Even the Old Faithful geyser becomes less faithful: its usually regular eruptions become harder to predict.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

In 1871 Jackson took one of the first photographs of the Old Faithful geyser in the Yellowstone region of Wyoming.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

Meghan is a wealthy American woman living a royal dream, if you ignore the geyser of British tabloid bile constantly burbling in the background of her life.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025

After a few seconds I was hit full force by an 8-foot-tall geyser, and there wasn’t any lever on the pump that reduced the force.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

From the three-foot-tall pedestal, a geyser of sand spewed upward, arcing into an umbrella-shaped curtain of white particles before spilling into the circular basin.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

The resulting hydrothermal systems, comparable to the network of geysers around Yellowstone National Park, may have created favorable settings for the origin and early evolution of life.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

Those lucky few had the steaming geysers, multicolored hot springs and bubbling mudpots all to themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

A buildup in pressure across the region is propelling wastewater up ancient wellbores, birthing geysers that can cost millions of dollars to clean up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

One of the most dramatic findings came from Enceladus, a small icy moon where towering geysers shot material into space, creating a faint sub-ring around Saturn made of the ejected debris.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2025

It grumbled as it slept, while heating geysers till they burst and restlessly worrying at fissures until they grew so deep that no one could find the bottom.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill




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