taps

Example Sentences

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A hospital chain near the Jersey Shore sometimes taps travel nurses during tourist season, when accidents and trauma cases rise, said Carol Gioia, chief nursing officer at AtlantiCare.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

The Mastercard of the IPO era was all about card swipes — not dips and taps — and “our main focus was cash displacement,” said Jorn Lambert, the company’s chief product officer.

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

While neither of the “Devil Wears Prada” movies revolve around Christianity, the invocation of the devil taps into an older moral rhetoric.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

That’s nearly as much as all the water that flowed from 19 million people’s taps across Southern California last year.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

She reaches over and grabs my phone, opens it, and taps a few buttons.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy