as in route
a direct way of passing along information or supplies
an equipment hauler serves as the columnist's pipeline for gossip about the rock band the battle was ultimately lost because the enemy had destroyed our pipeline for resupply
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Who from the current roster or pipeline not named Elly De La Cruz or Hunter Greene has the best chance to land on that list?
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C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Through the years, the busy area has been a pipeline to and from Interstate 95, a shopping and dining destination, a place to see an adult movie and a nude stage show, shop at a discount store, to protest or get business done at the federal immigration building.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
Danilo Zak, director of policy for resettlement agency Church World Service, said there are more than 100,000 people in the U.S. refugee pipeline who are now stranded, including 22,000 who had completed all their medical and security screenings and 12,000 who had travel booked.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 18 May 2025
The parents told him that the stains started appearing shortly after the town built a communal water pipeline to a warm spring about 5 miles away.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 May 2025
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C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Through the years, the busy area has been a pipeline to and from Interstate 95, a shopping and dining destination, a place to see an adult movie and a nude stage show, shop at a discount store, to protest or get business done at the federal immigration building.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
Danilo Zak, director of policy for resettlement agency Church World Service, said there are more than 100,000 people in the U.S. refugee pipeline who are now stranded, including 22,000 who had completed all their medical and security screenings and 12,000 who had travel booked.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 18 May 2025
The parents told him that the stains started appearing shortly after the town built a communal water pipeline to a warm spring about 5 miles away.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pipeline
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And earlier this week, Italy enacted a law that removes the route to citizenship through great-grandparents.—
Olesya Dmitracova,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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The bus route that passed through it never returned.—
Meg Anderson,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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LLMs and machine learning are merely the conduit through which benefits to the customer are delivered.—
Justin Warren,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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His strained, sandpaper-coarse timbre served as an ideal conduit for songs concerned with boisterous revelries, shady agreements, licentious intentions and musical pleasures.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Charlie Davis Season: 46 Placed: 2nd If Q was the hurricane blowing through Survivor 46, Davis was a source of calm geniality at the center, constantly quoting Taylor Swift songs while obscuring his careful, clever gameplay.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Time,
29 May 2025
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In addition, with Serge Gnabry a year away from being a free agent, Leroy Sane’s contract renewal increasingly tenuous, and Kingsley Coman another likely departure, the wide forwards positions — which have so often been a source of such power — need regenerating.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
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Jennings then shared the agreement with other media outlets, and the department released a statement on his retirement.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
28 May 2025
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Scheele’s brother, a marine biologist, told the outlet this is the first sighting the pair have made of the species, following six years of searching.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
28 May 2025
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Castelli maps four transmission channels: acute events, chronic shifts, transition pressures, and litigation.—
Michael Sheldrick,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
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More than 1,500 people are suing the city in 54 lawsuits, saying its failure to maintain its storm channels led to catastrophic flooding that displaced thousands, mainly in underserved neighborhoods in the Chollas Creek watershed.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 June 2025
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