spigot

Example Sentences

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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

It is past time to tighten the spigot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

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

The closest spigot was out the back of the servants’ quarters toward the garden, so that’s the way Ophie went, feeling her way along in the near dark.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland