faucet
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Turning off the faucet: Antiretroviral therapy doesn't eliminate HIV altogether, but it minimizes its ability to replicate.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Then we visited the robotics classroom, where he turned on a faucet, and the flow was closer to the color of apple juice than water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“Even if the strait were to effectively open tomorrow, you can’t turn the faucet back on,” Angie Gildea, global head of oil and gas at KPMG, told MarketWatch in March.
From MarketWatch ● May 24, 2026
“Even if there is a good resolution, this isn’t a faucet that can turn back on. We don’t have a peace button you can push to restart those wells.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
“I can get up onto the faucet all right,” he explained, “but I can’t seem to turn it on, because I have nothing to brace my feet against.”
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
For the hardware, the couple will be replacing the existing silver-toned metal with gold, including new faucets, new drawer handles, and new knobs for the cupboards.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
The disaster has destabilized local utilities that for generations quietly kept faucets flowing in Altadena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2026
Toilets lacked basic items such as soap, while water gushing from the faucets was tinged brown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Forgiveness can be a one-person endeavor, but anger and sorrow aren’t faucets that turn off with a pardon.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024
I sit waiting for her to text me back, flipping the faucets on and off.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
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