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as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
the major conduit for carrying water to the military base
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as in aqueduct
an open man-made passageway for water
water flowed along the conduit to the fountain
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Recent Examples of conduit
Knives were reportedly being stored between an electrical conduit and a wall covering.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Once a cushioned conduit to the other side, the casket now bursts with the wisdom of a life lived outside the box.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Agency officials describe that office as the conduit for congressional briefings and congressional inquiries.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
The Treasury turned to Spain’s Banco Santander SA as its conduit for Thursday’s peso purchases.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Once a cushioned conduit to the other side, the casket now bursts with the wisdom of a life lived outside the box.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Agency officials describe that office as the conduit for congressional briefings and congressional inquiries.
—Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2025
The Treasury turned to Spain’s Banco Santander SA as its conduit for Thursday’s peso purchases.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduit
Noun
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For now, imagine a skater launching off a quarter pipe two thousand feet high, then somersaulting.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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That fingerprint was sufficient enough to qualify for a warrant to search the rest of the Norman home, where tests of the pipes leading out of the washing machine revealed some matter containing Beryl’s DNA.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Workers excavated parts of the route with explosives and built locks and aqueducts along 363 miles of canal.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
26 Oct. 2025
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Completed eight years later, the canal stretched some 363 miles (584 kilometers), with 18 aqueducts and 83 locks to compensate for elevation changes en route.—
Matthew Smith,
The Conversation,
20 Oct. 2025
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But just six weeks after giving birth, Moreno decided to have her tubes tied.—
NPR,
NPR,
31 Oct. 2025
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Most of the production line is automated to limit human contact, with the vials being washed and sterilized and then filled with fentanyl using long rubber tubes.—
Janis Mackey Frayer,
NBC news,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This is a type of vertigo that happens when canaliths, which are small pieces of calcium, are floating inside your inner ear canals.—
Jakob Roze,
Health,
2 Nov. 2025
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Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-optic cables.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The carbon nanofiber provides mechanical stability, abundant pore channels, and excellent electrolyte wettability, while the cobalt sites catalyze the adsorption and conversion of polysulfides.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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During the 2020 cycle, disinformation targeting Black voters has been spreading through informal channels on social media, according to a report by NBC News.—
David Smiley,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Becker called out funnel-neck jackets, bra tops and balloon pants as important items.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Thai restaurant received a yellow placard after inspectors discovered the handwashing sink was blocked with a funnel and dish soap.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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“Conduit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conduit. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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