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 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 Techniques like curing and smoking are common, and some deli meats (including mortadella and bologna) are made with ground meat and spices that are piped into a casing, then cooked. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Apr. 2026
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  • The production is co-created and co-directed by choreographer Steven Hoggett and theater artist Christine Jones, with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke reworking the album’s material.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Six months before the January 2025 fires, directed ChatGPT to generate an image of a burning forest, a bunch of people running away from it, with people in poverty trying to get past a gigantic gate with dollar signs on it.
    Sierra van der Brug, Daily News, 10 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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  • Maybe some of the way public funds are being channeled is gonna to change.
    Torie Bosch, STAT, 6 June 2026
  • The singer wore a Schiaparelli couture bridal suit-dress designed by Daniel Roseberry, per Vogue, along with Christian Louboutin shoes, matching gloves and a Stephen Jones hat in a look that channeled Bianca Jagger's wedding look when she wed Mick Jagger in May 1971.
    Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
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  • Kemp's political action committee has funneled millions of dollars into the Dooley campaign, according to reports, and the two families have been close since childhood.
    Irene Wright, USA Today, 6 June 2026
  • Of that $35 million, nearly $10 million in Medicaid settlement money was funneled through the first lady’s favored charity, Hope Florida, to anti-amendment efforts.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
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  • His new doctrine fueled a decades-long war – one that ultimately carried the communist movement to victory and state power in Beijing in 1949.
    Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • The Rockies’ Kyle Karros hit an opposite-field line drive that carried to the right-field warning track, but Lee tracked down the potential extra-base hit on the run, then crashed into the chain-link portion of the fence.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 May 2026
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  • According to the staff report, data is retained for a maximum of one year unless part of an active investigation, and annual audits are conducted to verify compliance with privacy policies.
    Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • The study, which was conducted around the time brands went on their Memorial Day sales, offers a sobering look at the lack of consumer appetite for AI during a busy shopping season.
    Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 8 June 2026

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“Piped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piped. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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