spigot
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To that end, Meta is opening up the spigot.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Without that money spigot, David Ellison’s own ventures look much more perilous.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 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
Unlike the Middle East, where oil almost literally flowed out of a spigot, finding it here was getting harder and more expensive.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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
New York City’s estimated 275 mosques were among the first to host or counsel Muslim immigrants seeking shelter, halal food and water spigots used in pre-prayer ablutions.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 16, 2024
Wall Street has since soured on Paramount, due to Netflix’s rise, the COVID-19 pandemic and last year’s twin Hollywood strikes, which turned off the content spigots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
Well, it doesn't matter, I'll pick the tank from the contents of the drip cans hanging from the spigots.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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