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nozzle

[noz-uhl] / ˈnɒz əl /
NOUN
spout
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With crude oil topping $100 a barrel, and the average price of gas in the state approaching $5.50 a gallon, every touch of the nozzle is painful for California drivers.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Children suck up lamb and rice through a nozzle, like little astronauts.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 10, 2025

Inspectors also found old meat left in a mincer's nozzle and too few sinks for people to wash their hands at Kenya Butchers in West Street, Reading, run by KBH Meats Ltd.

From BBC May 10, 2025

The nozzle array can also pick up spheroids in customized patterns, which can then be repeated to create the architecture found in complex tissue.

From Science Daily Dec. 3, 2024

I inspected its nozzle and thought it crudely designed.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

The Soviet-era Paks power plant uses the Danube for cooling but the water level is so low that the suction nozzles cannot reach it.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

In the pitch black of the mine, mud-splattered men with headlamps drill into the rock in two-man teams, using hydro drills with long, thin nozzles that shoot out pressurized water to loosen the ore.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

He adds that he saves on pesticide spray since the nozzles only turn on when weeds are detected, as opposed to the kind of blanket spraying he used to do.

From BBC Jan. 19, 2026

California has more than 201,000 public EV charging ports, compared with about 120,000 gasoline nozzles statewide, according to state data.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 2025

Beside it was one of the nozzles that Mr. Caton had surreptitiously built.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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