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 This returning fave is an Original Glazed doughnut, dipped in white icing and topped off with blue sprinkles and white stars, piped with red icing stripes. Molly Burford, Southern Living, 22 June 2026 From 1840, the Tamina waters were piped into the town of Bad Ragaz, and Tamina Therme bathhouse opened there in 1872. Devorah Lev-Tov, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2026 From there, it’s piped to refineries around the country. David Goldman, CNN Money, 12 June 2026 The faucet is a portable Dometic Go unit piped to a 34-L fresh water tank, while the shower is a portable Geyser system drawing from the same tank. New Atlas, 5 June 2026 Sport mode also delivered a good amount of sound piped into the cabin, including entertaining turbo noises to accompany its hearty torque-shove Again, with the least amount of horsepower on tap. Peter Nelson, Robb Report, 27 May 2026 Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time. Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026 Before any argon is piped in, the containers must be laced with hundreds of massive wire grids, each composed of thousands of thin hand-strung wires that are now under construction. Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026 In a recent blog post (and associated YouTube Short), Google sought to clarify that your emails are not being piped directly into Gemini. ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
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Verb
  • Asked about his future, Migné directed questions to the Haitian Football Federation.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 June 2026
  • Moore and Jon Lucas co-wrote The Hangover, and the pair wrote and directed Bad Moms and its sequel A Bad Moms Christmas.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 24 June 2026
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  • The birds chirped a little bit louder.
    Tracy Smith, CBS News, 7 June 2026
  • About 40 minutes away, real birds melodiously chirped and trilled outside its sister hotel, Es Figueral Nou, an 18th-century finca and former fig plantation set among vast agricultural fields.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
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  • Talent development will be channeled through the Jakarta Film Lab initiative, offering training, mentorship and certification programs for writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors and crew.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Bennett, who turned 2 on May 8, channeled his father during the Masters Tournament’s Par 3 Contest in April, toting a toy golf club on the course while little brother Remy, born March 27, nestled up against Meredith, 30.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
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  • And donations collected during 40+ Double Dutch performances are funneled into the organization’s No Sisters Left Behind fund, which helps others in the group facing financial hardships.
    Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • The state also increased the share of tax revenue funneled annually to problem-gambling awareness and prevention.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 18 June 2026
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  • Many have carried the Indian flag and brought copies of the constitution to the demonstration.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 26 June 2026
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  • No homes had been lost, and Utah Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful back-burn operation to protect the town.
    Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
  • Defense attorney Michael Burt had argued a video deposition prosecutors conducted with a key witness is hearsay evidence and should not be admissible, as the witness could not be subject to cross-examination.
    Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 22 June 2026

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“Piped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piped. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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