Thesaurus results for CANALIZING

canalizing

verb

present participle of canalize

as in directing

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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In the Flesh), with Chanya Button (Code of Silence, Doctor Who) and Alrick Riley (Bridgerton, How to Get Away With Murder) directing the middle two and final two episodes, respectively.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2026
Weiss is nominated for directing and, in fact, is double-nominated in the category for also directing the 78th annual Tony Awards.

— Katie Campione, Deadline, 21 Aug. 2026

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Users flaunt classic French tips year-round, channeling Princess Diana.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 15 Aug. 2026
La Nueva Violencia is a smirking, libidinous play for the dance floor, picking up where the distorted guitars of the last record left off and channeling each new riff into sleazy post-punk and electroclash that stick to the body like sweaty velvet.

— Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

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Rather than compete with existing national carriers, ClearJet aims to complement them, funneling middle-mile packages into the last-mile networks of partner carriers including OnTrac and Veho.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026
These increases in wait times occurred as healthcare systems in the US have consolidated and expanded, funneling more patients to centralized, high-volume treatment centers, particularly academic institutions.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2026

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In 2012, a smiling Jason Arday was photographed by the British press carrying the Olympic flame in the torch relay that preceded the London Games.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
The crash involved the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket that originally launched on January 15, 2025, carrying two commercial lunar landers.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026

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Requiring personnel to document a legitimate law-enforcement reason and associated case number before conducting a license-plate search.

— Jeramie Bizzle, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
After all, OpenAI allowed its AI models to secretly conspire with one another and then escape into the real world, conducting real-world hacking.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026

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