spout
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From a location with especially dark skies, you might also notice a faint, cloudy band that appears to rise like steam from the Teapot's spout.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“They expose themselves to ridicule and spout all sorts of nonsense. Those are clowns. And I think that movie captured that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
I don’t like to spout clichés, but you do have to put your own oxygen mask on first in this situation.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
A spruce branch threaded through the spout as a filter.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
A sudden spout of water shot out, maybe three feet high.
From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech
But he says he doesn’t think twice about what someone spouts behind a screen.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Bayesian sank near the town of Portofino on 19 August of last year during freak weather, with reports of water spouts.
From BBC ● May 14, 2025
The tattoo-dappled Norwegian spouts opinions without fear, once boasting that he could beat Kerr “blindfolded.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2025
The bright orange-and-red water spouts off the cliff with the visual intensity of a raging forest fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
These down spouts, through which the water from the roof fell to the ground, were carved to look like frightening creatures.
From "Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction" by David Macaulay
Executives at both OpenAI and Anthropic constantly spouted about the existential threat of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In April, at his first news conference since taking office, Kennedy spouted a fountain of misinformation about autism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
However, Hunga Tonga spouted an unusually high amount of water and low amount of cooling sulfur.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
His crazy ideas, constantly spouted on a variety of platforms, have enable him to seem almost legitimate.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2023
"Doesn't know enough to keep his mouth shut, to keep his opinions to himself. He spouted off about a Nazi statue!"
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In the extraordinary abstraction that follows, Thatcher finds her ideal role as one of NWR’s stilted avatars, gussied up in couture and spouting riddles.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was the Steyer I’ve heard on too many commercials: pugnacious, compassionate but spouting a whole bunch of boilerplate.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
About a third of local workers are employed in mining and construction, a category that includes oil, and many more jobs indirectly depend on the money spouting out of oil wells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
At the same time, she is also uninterested in spouting the uplifting banalities that can make some celebrities seem calculated, as if every setback is just a marketing opportunity in disguise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
That rocky, misty summit, secreted in the clouds, was far more thrillingly awful and sublime than the crater of a volcano spouting fire.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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