the pipeline
noun
: the system for developing and producing something
the next wave of products to come down the pipeline
Newer treatments for the disease are in the pipeline.
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So far, local and state officials have collected 24 bins of oily debris from the pipeline rupture, with each bin able to hold up to 20 cubic yards.
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Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026
Deals include taking control of chip firms Arm, Graphcore, and Ampere Computing, as well as self-driving car start-up Wayve, $2 billion into Intel, plus some $40 billion into ChatGPT creator OpenAI—with reports of an additional $30 billion for the latter in the pipeline.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Restricting entry into the profession will shrink the pipeline further, meaning longer waitlists for mental health care, fewer clinicians in rural areas, higher caseloads, greater burnout, and reduced support for vulnerable people everywhere.
—David Kilmnick, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
In the last 20 years alone, the category has crowned eight of them, a run that reads like significant progress, but also serves as a reminder of how limited the pipeline has been elsewhere.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
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Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 24 Feb. 2026
Deals include taking control of chip firms Arm, Graphcore, and Ampere Computing, as well as self-driving car start-up Wayve, $2 billion into Intel, plus some $40 billion into ChatGPT creator OpenAI—with reports of an additional $30 billion for the latter in the pipeline.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 24 Feb. 2026
Restricting entry into the profession will shrink the pipeline further, meaning longer waitlists for mental health care, fewer clinicians in rural areas, higher caseloads, greater burnout, and reduced support for vulnerable people everywhere.
—David Kilmnick, New York Daily News, 21 Feb. 2026
In the last 20 years alone, the category has crowned eight of them, a run that reads like significant progress, but also serves as a reminder of how limited the pipeline has been elsewhere.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Feb. 2026
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“The pipeline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20pipeline. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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