spigots

plural of spigot
as in valves
a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid the plumber has installed a new spigot over the kitchen sink

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Recent Examples of spigots Other covers are too short or too small to fit older or oddly shaped spigots. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
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valves
Noun
  • The chemical was a component of firefighting foam and a processing aid to make a kind of plastic used in circuit boards, valves and pipes.
    Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the lab, his team is developing better, more flexible, and inconspicuous patches to monitor health metrics—think Band-Aid-like patches embedded with sophisticated sensors that can pick up deeper vibrations from the opening and closing of valves in the heart, for example.
    Alice Park, Time, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Spigots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spigots. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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