Thesaurus results for CHANNELED

channeled

verb

variants or channelled

past tense of channel

as in directed

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 channeled What’s less traditional is the profuse hybrid output, channeled through four drive modes—EV, Sport, Sport+, and Race. —

Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2026 Streep, 76, channeled Miranda Priestly by wearing a statement-making red cape coat from Givenchy by Sarah Burton's Fall 2026 collection, accessorized with black leather opera gloves, black Stuart Weitzman shoes, sparkling David Yurman jewelry and large black oversized glasses. —

Staff Author, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026 By making the vote donation-based, the zoo channeled the excitement around the cubs into real funding for the kind of ranger work being done on the ground in Sumatra — the same work that inspired both cubs’ names. —

Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2026 DFIs channeled public money into private equity funds whose managers paid themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to expand a health care regime that, in some cases, had effectively imprisoned the people who most needed help. —

Hettie O'Brien, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 Sanctions distills what was great about Souled American, channeled through its two remaining members. —

David Harris, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2026 Some is channeled to the poles of the black hole from where it is blasted out as powerful jets. —

Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Apr. 2026 In Asheville, North Carolina, an environmental nonprofit channeled the opposition of newer residents into a campaign against the New Asheville Speedway. —

Joshua Vadeboncoeur, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026 Rather than rehearse soothing representations of bodies or objects, the artist channeled crises both personal and political into an interrogation of representation in and on its own terms. —

Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026

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All of which is to say the original film’s artistic accomplishments are perfectly possible to emulate — or imitate outright, as the sequel (again directed by Frankel, and written by Aline Brosh McKenna) is mostly content to do.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
The film is directed and produced by Frank Licari and Hele Murphy.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026