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 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 So the water folks celebrated a year of more local water, but less water available that can be piped from Northern California. Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026 The premiss of these fancy looking bites is essentially just mashed potatoes that are piped into individual rounds then baked until golden on the outside while the inside remains soft and creamy. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2026
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Verb
  • Co-directed by the singer, the clip was artfully shot and empathetically told, and got fans sufficiently invested that Kiyoko eventually published a YA novel expanding the adventures of its young lovers, Coley and Sonya.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 June 2026
  • Gosling currently stars in and produced Project Hail Mary, the adaptation of Andy Weir’s bestselling novel directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 17 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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  • Meanwhile, other matter is channeled to the poles of the black hole, from where it is blasted away as high-energy plasma jets travelling at near-light speeds.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 June 2026
  • The players inhaled all the enthusiasm and channeled it.
    Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 14 June 2026
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  • The area’s shape, akin to the letter V, could also have funneled the remains to their resting spot, the authors wrote.
    Adithi Ramakrishnan, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • The pre-World War II Liberty Square public housing complex dates back to an era when federal funding for housing was funneled toward municipal governments to build low-income housing developments run by local housing authorities.
    Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 12 June 2026
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  • Iran's blockade of the strait, which carried about 20% of the world's oil supply before the war, has throttled traffic through the critical oil shipping channel, driving up fuel prices and threatening the global economy.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 June 2026
  • The show focuses on a person looking back at their life and what carried them through from a list of wonderful things, big and small, that make life worth living.
    Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
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  • Data from FlightAware showed that the plane had conducted nine flights between June 12 and June 14.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • At a Monday news conference, NTSB Vice Chairman Michael Graham spoke about the report and a separate report on revenue passenger-carrying operations, including skydiving, conducted in 2021.
    Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 15 June 2026

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