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
In the remaining 10% of cases, the dorsal and ventral ducts fail to fuse and remain separate.21
Specific causes of pancreas divisum are not clear.
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Jonathan B. Jassey, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025
The sides also have ducts carved out to keep air passing through to the back.
—New Atlas, 8 Apr. 2025
Plus grow lights, fans, and ducts for each chamber must be purchased separately.
—Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Feb. 2025
Most notably for me and my tear ducts, The Residence gave us a sweet and tender romance between Bruce Geller, played by Mel Rodriguez, and Elsyie Chayle, played by Julieth Restrepo.
—Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Jonathan B. Jassey, Verywell Health, 18 Apr. 2025
The sides also have ducts carved out to keep air passing through to the back.
—New Atlas, 8 Apr. 2025
Plus grow lights, fans, and ducts for each chamber must be purchased separately.
—Kate Puhala, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Feb. 2025
Most notably for me and my tear ducts, The Residence gave us a sweet and tender romance between Bruce Geller, played by Mel Rodriguez, and Elsyie Chayle, played by Julieth Restrepo.
—Virgie Tovar, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for duct
Noun
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In January, hundreds of residents were evacuated from the Patrick Sullivan Senior Apartments on the Near West Side due to a burst pipe, which resulted in flooding and the loss of heat and hot water.—
Lizzie Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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If a thick layer of wet coffee grounds is placed around a plant, a water-resistant barrier is formed (ask a plumber what the grounds do to your plumbing pipes).—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
18 May 2025
Noun
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LLMs and machine learning are merely the conduit through which benefits to the customer are delivered.—
Justin Warren,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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His strained, sandpaper-coarse timbre served as an ideal conduit for songs concerned with boisterous revelries, shady agreements, licentious intentions and musical pleasures.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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The team is taking this tack because Perseverance is getting low on unsealed tubes and still has a lot of intriguing ground to cover.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
21 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Her talk show on Versus, the sports channel that was rebranded NBC Sports Network in 2012, was canceled.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
20 May 2025
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If you’re sent an email with a number to call back, contact the organization using usual, publicly available channels or your apps.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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“Duct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/duct. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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