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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

You will probably need to pay a plumber to ensure the cistern refills properly, but whether that money should go to the same company depends largely on how they respond now.

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

I pulled out my pocketknife with my other hand and drove it through the shingle into the wooden wall of the cistern, pinning my makeshift piece of sygaldry under the water.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Farmers in tractors tugged water cisterns and aimed hoses at the blaze.

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

The bigger concern is ingestion, as the fog covers plants or open water cisterns, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025

I did every dirty job there was: I cleaned outhouses and strained bugs out of cisterns.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm


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