poured

past tense of pour
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as in streamed
to cause to flow in a stream she lifted the teakettle and poured some hot water from the spout

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as in rained
to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds it's pouring outside, so you'd better take an umbrella

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as in heaped
to give readily and in large quantities repeatedly poured money into the revitalization of the downtown area

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Recent Examples of poured Comprising two capsules, two wine stoppers, a bottle sleeve, and the Pivot aerator, the system infuses bottles with Argon gas as wine is poured. Jenny Berg, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024 A couple of lovely Turkish wines are poured there including a Vïnkara rosé of Kalecik Karasi (a grape indigenous to Turkey). Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student poured over the candidates’ platforms to inform her decision in November. La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2024 The latter has poured in around $11 billion into the market, but domestic investors have put in almost three times more than that. Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024 National Republicans and Democrats have poured money in accordingly. Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 3 Oct. 2024 Dunn has poured millions into a new effort led by Parscale to use AI to target voters. Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2024

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“Poured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poured. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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