piped

past tense of pipe
1
as in directed
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway piped water into every house

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2
as in chirped
to make a short sharp sound like a small bird the baby piped shrilly in his bed

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Recent Examples of piped Storyteller Overland The slim kitchen block comes with a stainless steel sink piped to a 76-L fresh water tank. — New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026 In direct liquid cooling, a specialized coolant is piped directly to components such as processors, whereas in immersion cooling, servers or other components are immersed in a nonconductive coolant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 Inside, the lobby is dimly lit in soothing lavender and blue and house music is piped in by surround sound. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 Dresses based on the domestic adornment were piped in leather, while a gleaming gold dress was laser-cut with the decorative pattern. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026 Other times, the insides will have alchemized into a thick fluid or gel, as if someone had piped them full of raspberry jam. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 In particular, the thick whip piped across the top of the drink tasted just like a Reese’s and melted satisfyingly into the drink over time. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Finally, to repeat the cycle, the ammonia’s heat is transferred to cold water piped in from the deep, causing the ammonia to condense. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026 With Brown, Amos makes twinkly, off-kilter experimental songs that sometimes sound as though they’re being piped out of a cursed music box. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 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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  • Rutschman said some of his former Orioles teammates chirped at him throughout the game and gave him a hard time about getting around the ballpark as a visiting player.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Social media has chirped with photos and comments from birders, some of whom see this as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
    — Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2026
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  • 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, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
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  • For some young investors, that means money originally allocated to long-term strategies is being funneled to activities built around immediate outcomes.
    — Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • On Friday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath highlighted the $77 million and 44 new positions funneled into the county’s Office of Emergency Management.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 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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“Piped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piped. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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