piped down

past tense of pipe down

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of piped down Since becoming mayor, though, Mamdani has piped down publicly on his calls for the freeze in order to avoid the appearance of compromising the board’s independence. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 25 June 2026 This is then piped down to the Gulf where it is turned into liquid, frozen to [less than] minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit and then put into ships. Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 5 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for piped down
Verb
  • Hiring bounced back in the spring but has cooled in recent months.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
  • As the cosmos cooled and expanded, the free-floating quarks and gluons started binding together to create the building blocks of all matter, including all those necessary atomic protons and neutrons.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The drug money that funded Davis’ lifestyle has long since dried up, and his defense depends on a lawyer willing to take his case for free.
    Andy Rose, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Their multimillion-dollar media deals with Netflix and Spotify have dried up and Harry is potentially facing millions of dollars in legal fees after losing his privacy case against the Daily Mail.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The impact is lavish yet hushed; welcoming yet sharply articulated.
    Genevieve Walker, Architectural Digest, 2 Aug. 2026
  • But within the cozy world of footballing governance, any dissent was mostly hushed—except in Norway.
    Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Anyone asked by local or national media over the past few months if they’d been invited to the nuptials clammed up quickly.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • On Israel, a lot of candidates have clammed up.
    Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

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“Piped down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piped%20down. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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