channeled

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 Just last week at the Academy Musuem Gala, Kardashian wore an archival Balenciaga gown from 1951 that, as noted by the dress sourcer Lily et Cie, channeled the Hollywood icon. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026 Inspired by true events that unfolded just minutes from where Groff grew up, The Amish Project is an intimate portrait of a place and a community channeled through a single performer. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026 Nowhere was this more apparent than at the track, where the Rio Ruidoso, channeled through culverts, crossed the infield. — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026 Seeing how Colman channeled that, telling so much through his stillness, his eyes and the tone of his voice, was amazing to witness. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 19 Oct. 2026 This is far from the first time that Kardashian has channeled her icon Elizabeth Taylor. — Meg Walters, InStyle, 18 Oct. 2026 In this golden age of cringe, that earlier art of transgression—with its tense silences, humiliations, and hostile disturbance of the performer-audience relationship—was channeled downstream. — Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 The spending was channelled through private contractor Chemonics. — Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026 So the city loses out not only on new companies that would otherwise set up shop here but also on a group of founders who might have channeled their profits into the next generation of startups. — Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
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  • Johan Enslin, an ARPA-E program director, envisions a grid in which power can be converted, directed and managed automatically—much like the way data are routed around the Internet—rather than merely stepped up or down.
    — Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Judd Apatow directed the Macdonald documentary, now streaming, and co-directed the one on Bamford, which premieres Friday.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • Sportsbook operators, including FanDuel and DraftKings, have funneled more than $80 million into state senate and congressional races, via Win for America, a PAC launched in November 2025.
    — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of paying his victims back, investigators say Bailey funneled the money to himself for his own personal expenses, hiding his use of the funds by having his investors send the money to Jones' special lawyer accounts.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • During captive-carry testing, engineers can assess equipment carried by an aircraft before proceeding to more demanding flight demonstrations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The starting five that carried Atlanta to the playoffs last season — Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, CJ McCollum and Onyeka Okongwu — returns.
    — Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026
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  • Just 39% of Americans say AI has a positive impact on society, compared with 44% who believe its impact is negative, according to a national survey conducted this month by my company, Outward Intelligence.
    — Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Channeled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/channeled. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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