fountain

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Eventually we learned I had an immune condition; I also had mono, which felt cosmically unfair considering I had not yet been kissed and suspected I’d contracted it from the skating rink water fountain.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

He found the clean-lined water fountain at Reseda Discount Pottery & Fountains, which he calls an “Aladdin’s cave” with hundreds of fountains running at once.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The knives—or fountain pens—were brandished during a secretive meeting of Paul Weiss’s blandly-named “Deciding Group.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Swipe fees “impact the fountain from which all loyalty dollars flow,” according to a Bernstein note Wednesday.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026

The only sound was the gurgle of the soda fountain.

From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis