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as in conduit
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
the plumber came and fixed the water pipe that was leaking
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as in to funnel
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
piped water into every house
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Recent Examples of pipe
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
Patmos would divide the open warehouse space into smaller rooms, add pipes and support infrastructure and install sound-muffling materials.
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Ilana Arougheti
june 26,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2026
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Travel + Leisure,
19 June 2026
From there, it’s piped to refineries around the country.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Noun
Unfortunately, sometimes winning the lottery also comes with exploding pipes.
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Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
26 June 2026
Patmos would divide the open warehouse space into smaller rooms, add pipes and support infrastructure and install sound-muffling materials.
—
Ilana Arougheti
june 26,
Kansas City Star,
26 June 2026
Verb
From 1840, the Tamina waters were piped into the town of Bad Ragaz, and Tamina Therme bathhouse opened there in 1872.
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Devorah Lev-Tov,
Travel + Leisure,
19 June 2026
From there, it’s piped to refineries around the country.
—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pipe
Noun
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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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Energy stocks — Oil prices were off more than 3% and once again below $70 per barrel, bringing energy stocks down with it.
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In addition to tilt and pressure sensitivity, the Apple Pencil Pro adds squeeze and delete functions to the palette, along with a new barrel-roll gesture and haptic vibrational feedback.
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Frank Carone agreed to accept bribes from Zhu and Chen, funneled through Anthony Carone, in exchange for steering a multimillion-dollar contract to house migrants at their Long Island City hotel, the indictment alleges.
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Additionally, the town maximized the use of revenue from Measure G, a one-eighth cent sales tax passed by voters in 2018, and funneled any leftovers from past capital projects for the Shannon Road Repair Project so that the project could continue to be funded without additional resources.
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As Photay, Shornstein—a master synthesist and producer—flits between atmospheric house, dubby breakbeat workouts, and chirping electro funk, building his songs’ arrangements into strange, angular shapes.
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The birds chirped a little bit louder.
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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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In Seattle, there was a sense of the team harnessing the crowd’s energy, and of the crowd channelling the energy emanating far beyond.
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As an artist who often publicly discusses mental health struggles, Caudle was willing to channel the anxiety that comes with impending parenthood throughout the process of writing and recording Heavy Thrill.
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Use a piping bag or cut the corner on a zip-top bag to easily create a neat dollop of sour cream.
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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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In Texas, parents have the fundamental legal right to direct the moral and religious upbringing of their children without state interference.
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In the movie, directed by Reiner, those are the three words Westley (Cary Elwes) uses while responding to requests from Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright).
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“Pipe.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pipe. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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