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spout

verb as in spurt, emit

noun as in projection though which water is ejected

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When tropical rains battered the building earlier this month, leaks seemed to spout from everywhere, said one 40-year-old man.

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

Now, right-wing activists purporting to be tracking political extremism are collecting huge amounts of data about their political opponents while spouting far-right rhetoric themselves.

From Salon

His beliefs also swung toward extremism, as he often spouted vitriol against racial and religious minorities, LGBTQ+ people, childless women, progressives and others who disagreed with him.

“I thought, ‘Oh, there would be a point where your life almost wasn’t worth living,’ and the thought of euthanizing someone who’s spouting adverts at you was darkly comic, but tragic, obviously.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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