as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
air ducts to provide ventilation
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Recent Examples of duct
Those include lung cancer, colorectal cancer, ovarian and endometrial cancers, and cholangiocarcinoma (a type of bile-duct cancer), according to Revolution Medicines.
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Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
That's evident in aerodynamic features like the front side spoilers, five-position adjustable rear wing, hood duct, and fender ducts.
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Utkarsh Sood
june 06,
New Atlas,
6 June 2026
That is, the banana duct-taped to the wall in Maurizio Cattelan‘s viral artwork Comedian, which was stolen from the French museum on Saturday.
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Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
Ever since Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan first made a splash at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 with the artwork Comedian, 2019, which consists of a banana affixed to a gallery wall with a single piece of duct-tape (in an edition of three).
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News Desk,
Artforum,
1 June 2026
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Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
8 June 2026
That's evident in aerodynamic features like the front side spoilers, five-position adjustable rear wing, hood duct, and fender ducts.
—
Utkarsh Sood
june 06,
New Atlas,
6 June 2026
That is, the banana duct-taped to the wall in Maurizio Cattelan‘s viral artwork Comedian, which was stolen from the French museum on Saturday.
—
Devorah Lauter,
ARTnews.com,
1 June 2026
Ever since Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan first made a splash at Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 with the artwork Comedian, 2019, which consists of a banana affixed to a gallery wall with a single piece of duct-tape (in an edition of three).
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duct
Noun
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The project includes replacing ageing electrical wiring, pipes and heating.
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Replacing the canals with pressurized pipes could save a lot of water.
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But the outlets require frequent inspections and maintenance when used continuously, which means that one of the four conduits will routinely be offline.
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But the journalist should not become a conduit for disinformation.
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Drivers wear vests which pump cooling liquid through a network of tubes, linked to pumping equipment inside the car.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
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Approval moved through operational channels all the way to the Chief of Naval Operations before execution shifted to local teams preparing the base to host one of the largest sporting events ever staged there.
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Roughly 6,500 feet of storm sewers and channels encompass the area, with new covered piping being laid.
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“Duct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duct. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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