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as in pipes
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 canals
an open man-made passageway for water
water flowed along the conduit to the fountain
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Recent Examples of conduits
Middle managers—those crucial conduits between strategy and execution—feel less psychologically safe than both their bosses and their teams.
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Harvard Business Review, 22 Oct. 2025
The analysts concluded that McGovern—who continued to use his secretblackmars handle, Knife—was one of Kinahan’s primary conduits to the world.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Only the means, the conduits of misinformation, and the overall enshittification have changed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
The San Pablo Bay Pipeline is the larger of two conduits carrying crude to Northern California.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
The project also includes the resurfacing and restriping of the existing parking lot, new accessible parking spaces, new streetlights, conduits for future vehicle charging stations, the replacement of walkways, and stormwater improvements.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Unlike rigid processes, pathways are living conduits.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Machines are shut down and shovels return, covering conduits with clods of soil.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
Established under the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was designed to protect First Amendment rights online in the early days of the Internet, the law shielded tech companies from liability as they were considered merely third-party conduits of content, not content producers themselves.
—Mark Guarino, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025
Harvard Business Review, 22 Oct. 2025
The analysts concluded that McGovern—who continued to use his secretblackmars handle, Knife—was one of Kinahan’s primary conduits to the world.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Only the means, the conduits of misinformation, and the overall enshittification have changed.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
The San Pablo Bay Pipeline is the larger of two conduits carrying crude to Northern California.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
The project also includes the resurfacing and restriping of the existing parking lot, new accessible parking spaces, new streetlights, conduits for future vehicle charging stations, the replacement of walkways, and stormwater improvements.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Unlike rigid processes, pathways are living conduits.
—Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Machines are shut down and shovels return, covering conduits with clods of soil.
—Steven Searcy, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2025
Established under the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was designed to protect First Amendment rights online in the early days of the Internet, the law shielded tech companies from liability as they were considered merely third-party conduits of content, not content producers themselves.
—Mark Guarino, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduits
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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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Remove hoses and cover above-ground pipes.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
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Each resort also features modern fitness centers within the setting of lush mangrove forests and freshwater canals alongside the Caribbean Sea.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
24 Oct. 2025
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Forgetting Derry’s communal traumas is as much a part of the town’s firmament as the scenic canals, the nearby Air Force base where Charlotte’s hubby Leroy (Jovan Adepo) has been newly posted, and the dilapidated house at 29 Neibolt Street.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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One resourceful backpacker invented this coupler for refilling miniature toothpaste tubes from full-sized ones.—
Zoe Gates,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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An East Bay institution that’s slung tasty meat tubes for almost a century is no more.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
26 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
Noun
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Our channels are built for that.—
Frank DiGiacomo,
Billboard,
27 Oct. 2025
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Both are using social media platforms as distribution channels as well as feeder systems.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2025
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Below, San Angelo gives us several methods for cleaning bathroom sink drains, her best tips on how to avoid a clogged bathroom sink, and what to avoid when cleaning your bathroom sink drain.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Conduits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conduits. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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