as in to direct
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
channelized all of his resources into winning that state's crucial primary
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Recent Examples of channelize
As a response to this, in the 1960s, the city added more concrete, channelizing the river in the hopes of getting runoff away from neighborhoods to Lake Michigan as fast as possible.
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Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
Austin and San Antonio have dammed, altered, channelized, buried and otherwise manipulated their creeks and rivers.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Mar. 2024
Draining wetlands and channelizing the Sprague River to enable cattle ranching and agriculture has taken its toll on the region.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
Wild Los Angeles Los Angeles is a city of nearly 3.9 million people, with a heavily urbanized landscape that’s epitomized by its vast network of freeways and a mostly tame and channelized Los Angeles River.
—Discover Magazine, 15 June 2024
Harvey says his team’s model can help by quantifying exactly how much carbon would be lost if a particular bog were drained or channelized.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2024
The Army Corps of Engineers responded by straightening and channelizing the Trinity, cutting down trees, and raising levees to contain future floods.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
Ahead are the arduous tasks of restoring forests ravaged by huge wildfires, repairing the damage to creeks and rivers that were dredged and channelized to dry up wetlands that once made their waters clear and pure, and mitigating other damage to lands and waters occurring over the past 150 years.
—The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2024
Yet California squandered much of the bounty from its recent unusually wet winter, as levees, channelized rivers and paved cities funneled much of the runoff into the ocean rather than capturing it.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
Austin and San Antonio have dammed, altered, channelized, buried and otherwise manipulated their creeks and rivers.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 Mar. 2024
Draining wetlands and channelizing the Sprague River to enable cattle ranching and agriculture has taken its toll on the region.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2024
Wild Los Angeles Los Angeles is a city of nearly 3.9 million people, with a heavily urbanized landscape that’s epitomized by its vast network of freeways and a mostly tame and channelized Los Angeles River.
—Discover Magazine, 15 June 2024
Harvey says his team’s model can help by quantifying exactly how much carbon would be lost if a particular bog were drained or channelized.
—Quanta Magazine, 28 May 2024
The Army Corps of Engineers responded by straightening and channelizing the Trinity, cutting down trees, and raising levees to contain future floods.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
Ahead are the arduous tasks of restoring forests ravaged by huge wildfires, repairing the damage to creeks and rivers that were dredged and channelized to dry up wetlands that once made their waters clear and pure, and mitigating other damage to lands and waters occurring over the past 150 years.
—The Arizona Republic, 7 Jan. 2024
Yet California squandered much of the bounty from its recent unusually wet winter, as levees, channelized rivers and paved cities funneled much of the runoff into the ocean rather than capturing it.
—Erica Gies, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for channelize
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His office is planning to roll out the National Multimodal Freight Network in early 2025 to assist states in directing resources toward optimal freight transportation investments, as well as identify priorities for federal investment, to increase efficiency in the movement of trade.Lori Ann LaRocco, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
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This solar flare produced a strong CME, directed over the sun's eastern limb.Ryan French, Space.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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In numbers, VCs channeled $13.5 billion to U.K. startups in Q3 compared with $14.8 billion a year earlier.Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Don't let frustration boil over; channel this energy into self-care or a passion project.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
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And so is the scandal that OT is apparently being funneled, not to crime fighting and hardworking cops freezing their behinds off patrolling the streets and subways, but to paperpushers like Epps with cushy jobs back at 1 Police Plaza.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Wednesday's extraordinary display of Elon Musk's social media power saw the world's richest man funnel the anger of his hundreds of millions of online followers against a bipartisan compromise funding bill.Scott Rosenberg, Axios, 19 Dec. 2024
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He was charged in Pennsylvania with felony counts of forgery and carrying a firearm without a license, as well as a misdemeanor count of using fraudulent identification.Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
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Pennsylvania authorities charged him with carrying firearms without a license, possessing instruments of a crime, falsely identifying himself to law enforcement, tampering with records or identification, and forgery.Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2024
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For people who didn’t attend these events, Hitler’s frenzied emotional appeals were piped directly into living rooms through cheap radio sets.Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 29 Nov. 2024
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Layer leaves as desired and pipe additional frosting on backs of leaves as needed.Tricia Manzanero Stuedeman, Southern Living, 22 Nov. 2024
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Discovery was conducted by the U.S. Trustee in this adversary proceeding.Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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According to a recent survey conducted by the LGBTQ advocacy group GLSEN, the vast majority of LGBTQ students in our state regularly heard homophobic remarks, and many even reported school staff making them.Scott Galvin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Channelize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/channelize. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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