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cistern

[sis-tern] / ˈsɪs tərn /
NOUN
reservoir
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A large bear and her three cubs fell into the concrete cistern in Marshall Canyon County Park near the Claremont Wilderness Park’s 5-Mile Loop Trail, where they were rescued late Saturday night, the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

“The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

Whether the plumber directly caused the problem, failed to identify an underlying issue, or repaired one faulty component only for another to reveal itself, the result is the same: the cistern does not function properly.

From MarketWatch Jun. 10, 2026

She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

He’d found water in a toilet cistern in the flat.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

School children have outings to waterworks to understand how precious the resource is, and households have embraced water-saving devices for shower heads and toilet cisterns.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

But another island, Stromboli, still depends on ships with water cisterns.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

When it runs out, he jumps from one rooftop to another to gather buckets of water from nearby cisterns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 8, 2026

Some smaller-scale ideas have emerged, such as installing cisterns, tapping water from swimming pools, or even turning to mobile pumps and pipes that could quickly route water where it’s needed.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 7, 2026

This mosquito is almost entirely dependent on humans for its breeding areas—the still water found in water barrels, cisterns, canals, ponds, sewers, gutters, and outhouses.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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