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spout

[spaut] / spaʊt /


NOUN
projection though which water is ejected
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From a location with especially dark skies, you might also notice a faint, cloudy band that appears to rise like steam from the Teapot's spout.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

A spruce branch threaded through the spout as a filter.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

Advice givers end up asking about three questions in response to every one they are posed, and they spout a lot of general advice to avoid being wrong.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 9, 2026

From the spout pours not water but syrup, pumped from an enormous bottle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025

Sit up now...She held a little white enamel teapot and let them suck the water from its spout while she cradled their filthy heads against her apron, like giant babies.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

But he says he doesn’t think twice about what someone spouts behind a screen.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Peter: Can Rangers please employ someone to edit the post-match interview drivel that spouts from the head coach?

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025

But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2025

The tattoo-dappled Norwegian spouts opinions without fear, once boasting that he could beat Kerr “blindfolded.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2025

Icy air spouts from four slotted squares above our heads, a reminder that this room was intended to preserve seeds.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

However, Hunga Tonga spouted an unusually high amount of water and low amount of cooling sulfur.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

The former president spouted off on Truth Social Thursday evening in response to the notification.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023

Mr Hancock tweeted that "disgusting and dangerous anti-semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society".

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023

But I clung grimly, thinking my mast and keel would come back to the surface when she spouted.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Amazon, meanwhile, poured millions into an immersive, acre-sized space complete with espresso martinis, a fountain spouting rosé and caricature artists drawing portraits of attendees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

About a third of local workers are employed in mining and construction, a category that includes oil, and many more jobs indirectly depend on the money spouting out of oil wells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

But a Reform source accused the Lib Dem leader of "spouting total madness" and said the party had no plans to change gun laws in the UK should it win power.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025

But much of what they are spouting is self-help, internet based, anecdotal nonsense.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2025

Grampa sounded so wrongheaded, I couldn’t believe it Maybe some of what Dad was always spouting about equality and the American dream had rubbed off on me.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe


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