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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
Only the means, the conduits of misinformation, and the overall enshittification have changed.
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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
The complaints say some Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes contain seats that would typically contain windows, but lack them because of the placement of air conditioning ducts, electrical conduits or other components.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Delta’s smaller fleet has a similar composition of aircraft with these windowless configurations, usually the result of the patterns of internal air conditioning duction or electrical conduits.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
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
The complaints say some Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes contain seats that would typically contain windows, but lack them because of the placement of air conditioning ducts, electrical conduits or other components.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
Delta’s smaller fleet has a similar composition of aircraft with these windowless configurations, usually the result of the patterns of internal air conditioning duction or electrical conduits.
—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduits
Noun
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The chemical was a component of firefighting foam and a processing aid to make a kind of plastic used in circuit boards, valves and pipes.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
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Filth Flies Little filth flies such as drain flies breed in sludge and decaying matter that can build up in drain pipes, says Oi.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
10 Oct. 2025
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In Flagler County, numerous docks flooded and waves were topping over some seawalls along a series of canals off the Intracoastal in Palm Coast, and a few inches of tidal flooding was reported in the oceanfront community of Flagler Beach, emergency officials told the weather service.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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While Zaremba prefers topwater plugs, a soft-plastic frog is far and away the best bait for snakeheads, which lurk along the shorelines of the canals.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The set comes with fine, medium, and coarse grinding plates; a food pusher; sausage stuffer tubes; and a cleaning brush.—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
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Why breathing tubes are so tough to place Our bodies are built to keep food and foreign objects out of the lungs.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For millennia, qanats—ingenious underground aqueducts—balanced survival with scarcity across the central plateau of Iran.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Pipes are painted like tree trunks, flumes are supported by faux crumbling aqueducts, waterfalls gush through holes in the hulls of boats and sails hang overhead to protect from the searing sun.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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There was an entire firestorm over North Carolina’s social media channels and the coverage of Patriots QB Drake Maye, or lack thereof.—
Chris Branch,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The drones, Business Insider reports, were discovered in the Krasnodar region, with images and video footage released by Russian news channels and military bloggers shortly after.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
6 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 13 Oct. 2025.
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