as in tributary
a stream that flows into a larger body of water
the lake has several feeders that have their headwaters near the Canadian border
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Recent Examples of feeder
Puzzle and activity feeders mimic natural hunting behavior and keep cats mentally stimulated.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Then the town’s youth football feeder program gets to work.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Timber cutting in the Adirondack Mountains was causing so much erosion that the eastern canal’s feeder rivers were filling up with silt.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Be sure to keep the feeders clean, and check them often during the rainy season to make sure the seed remains dry.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Then the town’s youth football feeder program gets to work.
—Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Timber cutting in the Adirondack Mountains was causing so much erosion that the eastern canal’s feeder rivers were filling up with silt.
—Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
Be sure to keep the feeders clean, and check them often during the rainy season to make sure the seed remains dry.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for feeder
tributary
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Of the more than five thousand tributaries that empty into the Great Lakes, about one in ten is infested with lampreys.—
Katie Thornton,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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These ancient, natural waterways are former tributaries of the Rio Grande left behind hundreds to thousands of years ago when the river shifted its course.—
Gabi De la Rosa,
Southern Living,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Feeder.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeder. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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