as in valve
a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid the plumber has installed a new spigot over the kitchen sink

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Recent Examples of spigot But with President Joe Biden’s election in 2020, the money spigot opened like a gusher. Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025 Donald Trump and Elon Musk have triggered panic in Washington with their efforts to cap the U.S. foreign aid spigot. Editorial, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2025 Read more Girls' Violence is Rare—But Not Their Violent Victimization | Opinion March Against Lies, Fake News, and Disinformation | Opinion Iran's War on Women Must Be Stopped | Opinion Additionally, Trump should turn off the spigots of federal funding that support the gender madness. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025 In South Carolina, vendors sell fresh watermelon, oranges and pecans behind a rural church near Blackville where people flock to collect water from two spigots in the ground. Jill Schweber, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for spigot

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“Spigot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigot. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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