faucet
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Turning off the faucet: Antiretroviral therapy doesn't eliminate HIV altogether, but it minimizes its ability to replicate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then we visited the robotics classroom, where he turned on a faucet, and the flow was closer to the color of apple juice than water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“Even if the strait were to effectively open tomorrow, you can’t turn the faucet back on,” Angie Gildea, global head of oil and gas at KPMG, told MarketWatch in March.
From MarketWatch ● May 24, 2026
“Even if there is a good resolution, this isn’t a faucet that can turn back on. We don’t have a peace button you can push to restart those wells.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
I bent to turn the faucet off, but my head swam, and the faint shimmer of water on the tile seemed to wink at me.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
For the hardware, the couple will be replacing the existing silver-toned metal with gold, including new faucets, new drawer handles, and new knobs for the cupboards.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Toilets lacked basic items such as soap, while water gushing from the faucets was tinged brown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Where aquifer levels decline, wells and faucets increasingly sputter and run dry, people drill deeper and the land can sink as underground spaces collapse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
City officials have urged residents not to use water that has started to come out of their faucets for now, warning that this could delay the completion of the repairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
At a track in Arizona a monkey was a popular mascot until he began turning on all the shed-row faucets and tearing the shingles off the roof.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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