canalized

past tense of canalize
as in directed
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway the director of the charity should be canalizing the flow of donations so that the money ends up where it is most needed

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Verb
  • Chisholm also directed a lewd acronym at a user on X who criticized him for going after Walsh after the final out.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • After a noticeable drop in school attendance due to SEPTA cuts in the first week of the new school year, the city directed a portion of its $135 million transit subsidy to restore bus and trolley service on routes that are heavily used by students.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Her 2020 duo of albums, Folklore and Evermore, channeled the sound and sensibility of indie rock, refracting her perennial personal themes through a dark, blurry lens of fantasy and allegory.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The outfit—both edgy and alluring—has since become an iconic moment in pop culture cinema, and Bieber totally channeled the vibe—in her own modern, stylish way, naturally.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • In other states across the country, convicts were funnelled into a range of different facilities, but in Aragua the system was more centralized, and the main prison was Tocorón.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Obvious as that opening sequence at the cider mill might be, there’s a lingering queasiness to its Wes Anderson-like top-down shots of apples being funnelled through a big machine that shuts down the second an irregular object is thrown into the mix.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • Even sparks or embers carried by the wind can ignite nearby leaves or grass, triggering a fire that spreads rapidly.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Jackson, on Thursday and in her book, credited much of her accomplishments to her birth into a post-Civil Rights America and to the support system that carried her through it.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • To make sure drivers don’t miss critical cues, important noises can also be piped directly into the cabin via the headrest.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Tesla drivers can choose from 80 supercharger stations surrounding the diner and can order food directly from their cars’ touch screens, while audio for the drive-in movie screens is piped into their sound system.
    Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • Arteta later revealed that the Arsenal squad had conducted a vote on who would be this season’s captain, and that Odegaard won ‘by a mile’.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The warplanes recently conducted operational flight testing of AGR-20F live fire at targets over land and water.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Canalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/canalized. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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