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conduit

[kon-dwit, -doo-it, -dyoo-it, -dit] / ˈkɒn dwɪt, -du ɪt, -dju ɪt, -dɪt /


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Iran lashed out at targets including energy infrastructure in countries such as the U.A.E., a key commercial conduit to the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

But let history — and John Cage — remind us that opening our ears can be the conduit to opening our minds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Before the war, the strait was the conduit for about 20 million barrels of oil exports, the vast majority headed to Asia.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

"By applying the insecticides, that's when they started falling out of conduit pipes, literally coming out of plug sockets, out of the toasters, out of the back of microwave ovens," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Conant, who had come up with the idea, thought it could serve as a conduit to the Interim Committee for the views of bomb scientists who had become restless about the implications of their work.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The layers of shell companies and use of foreign conduits into luxury real estate help leaders of the Islamic Republic maintain an image back home of embracing modesty and rejecting lavish lifestyles, researchers say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

There’s no evidence that this generation intends to make pining their only romantic activity; it’s more that they are very content, at the moment, to luxuriate in the many conduits for yearning available to them.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026

“The three primary conduits for sustained inflation are housing, labor and energy,” Dutta pointed out.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026

"In order to better predict the hazard potential of volcanoes, we need to update our volcano models and take shear forces in conduits into account," says Bachmann.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025

Here, people whisper, the Germans have renovated two kilometers of subterranean corridors under the medieval walls; they have built new defenses, new conduits, new escape routes, underground complexes of bewildering intricacy.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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