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as in pipe
a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas)
the major conduit for carrying water to the military base
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as in aqueduct
an open man-made passageway for water
water flowed along the conduit to the fountain
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Recent Examples of conduit
If water from that ocean percolates through conduits in the ice and rockets into space as a plume, Clipper might even be capable of detecting microbes directly, although few on the mission dare to raise such hopes.
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science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
Some of the damage to the bridge was caused when materials under the bridge deck including synthetic materials, safety netting and conduit were ignited by the fire on the Sawyer Point 1000 Hands playground beneath the bridge.
—Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
Popular art about the Holocaust has long been a series of lesson plans, a conduit for catharsis.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Art is also a central conduit between life and the afterlife in Buddhist cultures.
—Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
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science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
Some of the damage to the bridge was caused when materials under the bridge deck including synthetic materials, safety netting and conduit were ignited by the fire on the Sawyer Point 1000 Hands playground beneath the bridge.
—Aaron Valdez, The Enquirer, 1 Nov. 2024
Popular art about the Holocaust has long been a series of lesson plans, a conduit for catharsis.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Art is also a central conduit between life and the afterlife in Buddhist cultures.
—Livia Caligor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduit
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In back, a pipe is leaking, damaged when the wall supporting a heater was torn out.Suzanne Seggerman, Curbed, 14 Nov. 2024
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Now, a team of engineers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) in Australia have invented a protective coating for concrete pipes that could help reduce the number of fatbergs that form in sewers.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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Residents seized the aqueduct’s control gates and diverted its flow into the Owens River channel.Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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Two billion dollars and a decade later, that new tunnel is ready to connect to the old, and that means shutting the aqueduct off for eight months.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Oct. 2024
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This may include administering supplemental oxygen through a mask or tubes in the nose to help increase blood oxygen levels.Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Nov. 2024
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With these investments have also come 3 new trails, with options to night ski and tube.Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2024
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Aim the cup toward the back of your vaginal canal and at a slight upward angle.Wendy Wisner, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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Chinese border personnel took over a Nepali irrigation canal fed by the Karnali River, the report said, although the Chinese retreated when the Nepali mission visited.New York Times, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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The company continues to focus on expanding its distribution channels and developing new products.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
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China has since made an effort to avoid being bypassed by maintaining close channels of communication with Pyongyang.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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My neighbor used to fly them, waving his cane in wild circles overhead to make the funnel of bird-flesh spin.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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In these cases, getting the customer over the line and purchasing can be the toughest part of the sales funnel.Darpan Munjal, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Conduit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conduit. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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