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Examples of tap water in a Sentence
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If tap water is your only option, let is stand for two days to allow chemicals to evaporate.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Dec. 2024
Some people also find drinking tap water questionable, so this is a clean and techy way to hydrate.
—Andrew Watman, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2024
That’s a higher concentration than is found in most tap water.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
The study does not suggest that tap water with the byproduct is unsafe to drink -- but does call for more research to be done.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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“Tap water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tap%20water. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
tap water
noun
: water as it comes from a tap (as in a home)
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