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nozzle

[noz-uhl] / ˈnɒz əl /
NOUN
spout
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With crude oil topping $100 a barrel, and the average price of gas in the state approaching $5.50 a gallon, every touch of the nozzle is painful for California drivers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

Children suck up lamb and rice through a nozzle, like little astronauts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 10, 2025

So depending on the contents, you could have a pump, a squeeze top, spray nozzle, screw top lid or other options.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2025

HITS-Bio uses a digitally controlled nozzle array, an arrangement of multiple nozzles that moves in three dimensions and allows researchers to manipulate several spheroids at the same time.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

It's such a struggle for me to control the nozzle that I can barely move.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan




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