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as in canal
an open man-made passageway for water
water was drained from the swamp through a specially constructed channel
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as in pipeline
a direct way of passing along information or supplies
you need to make arrangements through the proper channels
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as in conduit
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
had to replace the main water channel
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as in psychic
a person who claims to speak with or for the spirits of the dead
the channel went into a trance and began speaking in what was purported to be the voice of the deceased woman
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as in to direct
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
an athletic youth who channeled all of his energy into sports
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Recent Examples of channel
Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
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—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 24 Jan. 2026
Beren Cross, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
If Miller was trying to channel Hobbes, this would be a break with a very old American tradition of wariness about the philosopher.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The channel didn’t have another movie come close to High School Musical’s ratings until the 2008 premiere of Camp Rock.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2026
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—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
Andy Burke, acoustic consultant director at AEC, also made the point that roofs should be kept as low as safely allowed to ensure supporter noise is consolidated and then channelled towards the pitch.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
If Miller was trying to channel Hobbes, this would be a break with a very old American tradition of wariness about the philosopher.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for channel
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In 2021, Carolyn Dunn Moudy was identified as the woman whose body Davie Police found floating in a canal in 1975 after exhuming her body from Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens cemetery in Davie in 2019.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Jan. 2026
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Circle the City has five street medicine teams who provide care to unsheltered individuals in riverbeds, canals, alleys, and other community spaces.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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The 60-mile-long island is separated by a narrow strait from Australia’s eastern coast near the city of Maryborough.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
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That was the first success Stimpfle had in reaching someone across the strait.—
Ian Frazier,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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For weeks in this space, the thought — through no fault of their own — was to swap out Powell and Andrew Wiggins for draft capital, to either further fuel the youth pipeline or to amass and then package picks in a trade for a potential leading man (preferably a Greek leading man).—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
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This structural and compounding loss heightened by sidelining Black women’s leaders drains institutions of current productivity and future leadership pipelines.—
Jallicia Jolly,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Angelic children are conduits between life and death.—
Natalia Jiménez-Stuard,
Washington Post,
9 Jan. 2026
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That may not be considered overly important, but the media remain the best conduit between the England team and its supporters, even in the social media age.—
Paul Newman,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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The town, about 25 miles southwest of Daytona Beach, Florida, is home to mediums, psychics and healers, many practicing out of their homes.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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Think past life regression meditations, tarot and oracle card readings, and even sessions with psychics.—
Susmita Baral,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Oct. 2025
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Trump issued an executive order late Tuesday directing his administration to review the laws that govern how big institutional investors make large purchases of single-family homes and determine whether such investors are engaging in anti-competitive practices.—
Alex Veiga,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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For the seventh consecutive year, at least one film nominated for best picture has been directed by a woman.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
22 Jan. 2026
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Ancient Origins reported that the researchers analyzed the carbonate incrustations, or the buildup in the city’s pipes, as well as deposits in the aqueducts and water towers built later on.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
18 Jan. 2026
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Kavala offers a stunning mix of ancient history and modern city life, with its iconic aqueduct standing tall.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2026
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The amp also has bass and treble controls with an EQ bypass mode for tweaking the sound or preserving the original signal path.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Social media treats the tree-popping phenomenon as a sign of the apocalypse, but Indigenous peoples have long used the sound of cracking timber to mark the passage of winter.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Channel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/channel. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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