spigot
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Without that money spigot, David Ellison’s own ventures look much more perilous.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
I knew the salary spigot would slam shut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
“When does the spigot stop? When do we stop throwing away money?” asked Burgess, who wants to see subsidies shrink.
From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025
At the same time, use of the Fed’s standing repo facility — seen as a liquidity spigot for financial institutions in search of short-term cash to finance their operations — increased in late October.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 22, 2025
Drinking water came from a convenience store miles away—without permission, the Warden or one of the children quickly shoved their plastic jugs under an outside spigot and hoped no one saw them.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Since 2020, when Washington turned on the spigots to counter effects of the pandemic, government-benefits fraud cases have increased 242%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
“They can turn these spigots on or off whenever they need to,” Sansoterra said of Big Tech’s capital expenditures.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2025
An additional 700 water samples have been collected from water hose spigots at Nickerson Gardens and Imperial Courts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2024
The content spigots were, in large part, turned off.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
The sink was a long metal trough against one wall, with a row of spigots for hot and cold water.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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