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as in pipes
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 canals
an open man-made passageway for water
water flowed along the conduit to the fountain
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Recent Examples of conduits
Angelic children are conduits between life and death.
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Natalia Jiménez-Stuard, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026
More than mere armored knights, Paladins are forged as holy conduits.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Dec. 2025
Wadephul's visit comes against a backdrop of tensions in the Taiwan Strait, one of the world's busiest trade conduits, over China's threats toward Taiwan.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Perkins specializes in conjuring an overall sense of dread and coming up with hallucinatory images that work better as free-form conduits of fear than as, say, puzzle pieces designed to fill in a big picture.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2025
In another building, a teacher instructs a class on how to bend metal electrical conduits.
—Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
Piergiorgio Scarlato and Jacopo Taddeucci Data from SKATE is helping scientists test hypotheses about how gas bubbles rise and burst inside magma, how volcanic conduits are shaped, and study subsurface processes that ordinary monitoring can’t see.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2025
Middle managers—those crucial conduits between strategy and execution—feel less psychologically safe than both their bosses and their teams.
—Harvard Business Review, 22 Oct. 2025
The analysts concluded that McGovern—who continued to use his secretblackmars handle, Knife—was one of Kinahan’s primary conduits to the world.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conduits
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There were several holes greater than a quarter-inch on the ceiling panels in the office/storage room, main kitchen near the pipes and in the prep area.—
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As one of the oldest gas utilities in the country, BGE’s network of gas pipes includes material, such as cast iron, that has a heightened risk of failure.—
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Four Seasons Resort and Residences Puerto Rico Expansive rain gardens, nature trails, lakes, and canals create an out-of-the-ordinary resort feel.—
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The watershed also is situated on relatively flat, low-lying and porous terrain, enabling higher tides to penetrate deeper into the freshwater marshes through the vast network of canals that holds the watershed together.—
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Keep boots upright and orderly by using boot trees, cardboard tubes, or even a short length of PVC pipe.—
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Unopened tubes and cans are both shelf-stable, but once opened, the difference is significant.—
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The tunnel would create a second route to transport water from new intakes on the Sacramento River to the south side of the Delta, where pumps send water into the aqueducts of the State Water Project.—
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Workers excavated parts of the route with explosives and built locks and aqueducts along 363 miles of canal.—
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The transaction was announced on the USC football program’s official social media channels on Tuesday afternoon.—
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That December, the subway was moving along channels that had been bored much earlier.—
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Below, San Angelo gives us several methods for cleaning bathroom sink drains, her best tips on how to avoid a clogged bathroom sink, and what to avoid when cleaning your bathroom sink drain.—
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“Conduits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conduits. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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