Thesaurus results for PIPED

piped

verb

past tense of pipe

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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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 Storyteller Overland The slim kitchen block comes with a stainless steel sink piped to a 76-L fresh water tank. — New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026 In direct liquid cooling, a specialized coolant is piped directly to components such as processors, whereas in immersion cooling, servers or other components are immersed in a nonconductive coolant. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026 Inside, the lobby is dimly lit in soothing lavender and blue and house music is piped in by surround sound. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026 Dresses based on the domestic adornment were piped in leather, while a gleaming gold dress was laser-cut with the decorative pattern. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Sep. 2026 Other times, the insides will have alchemized into a thick fluid or gel, as if someone had piped them full of raspberry jam. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026 In particular, the thick whip piped across the top of the drink tasted just like a Reese’s and melted satisfyingly into the drink over time. — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 Finally, to repeat the cycle, the ammonia’s heat is transferred to cold water piped in from the deep, causing the ammonia to condense. — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Sep. 2026 With Brown, Amos makes twinkly, off-kilter experimental songs that sometimes sound as though they’re being piped out of a cursed music box. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

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Johan Enslin, an ARPA-E program director, envisions a grid in which power can be converted, directed and managed automatically—much like the way data are routed around the Internet—rather than merely stepped up or down.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Judd Apatow directed the Macdonald documentary, now streaming, and co-directed the one on Bamford, which premieres Friday.

— Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

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Rutschman said some of his former Orioles teammates chirped at him throughout the game and gave him a hard time about getting around the ballpark as a visiting player.

— Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Social media has chirped with photos and comments from birders, some of whom see this as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

— Mindy Schauer, Oc Register, 3 Sep. 2026

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Just last week at the Academy Musuem Gala, Kardashian wore an archival Balenciaga gown from 1951 that, as noted by the dress sourcer Lily et Cie, channeled the Hollywood icon.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2026
Inspired by true events that unfolded just minutes from where Groff grew up, The Amish Project is an intimate portrait of a place and a community channeled through a single performer.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026

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Sportsbook operators, including FanDuel and DraftKings, have funneled more than $80 million into state senate and congressional races, via Win for America, a PAC launched in November 2025.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Instead of paying his victims back, investigators say Bailey funneled the money to himself for his own personal expenses, hiding his use of the funds by having his investors send the money to Jones' special lawyer accounts.

— Dan Raby, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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During captive-carry testing, engineers can assess equipment carried by an aircraft before proceeding to more demanding flight demonstrations.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
The starting five that carried Atlanta to the playoffs last season — Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Dyson Daniels, Jalen Johnson, CJ McCollum and Onyeka Okongwu — returns.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 21 Oct. 2026

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Just 39% of Americans say AI has a positive impact on society, compared with 44% who believe its impact is negative, according to a national survey conducted this month by my company, Outward Intelligence.

— Will Johnson, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
The experiment, conducted by computer scientists at Binghamton University in New York, exposed a security weakness in large language models (LLMs) used to plan robotic actions.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026

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