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pipe

[pahyp] / paɪp /


VERB
conduct through tube, passage
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“There’s very little information under the ground. You’re just going, ‘Pipe, pipe, manhole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“You can really create mood and emotion on the pipe organ,” Wilson once told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"For these reasons, members of the public should never enter a pipe, drain, catch basin, manhole, or outfall," the city's Department of Environmental Protection previously told the BBC.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Earlier geological surveys had interpreted the local breccia rocks as evidence of a funnel-shaped volcanic structure called a diatreme, which forms when explosive magma eruptions create a pipe filled with shattered rock.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Baron Hoover replied, waving his pipe in the other direction.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood

The system uses a cooling tank and pump, usually situated in the car's nose, that delivers a cooled liquid, such as glycol, through a system of pipes in a fireproof top worn under their overalls.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Races begin with a bone-shaking roar, as the world's fastest-accelerating cars leave the starting line, flames bursting out of their exhaust pipes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Since 2021, San Jose Water has invested more than $1 billion in infrastructure including pipes, pumps and plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Around 70% of its operational inputs, including pipes, chemicals and wellheads, are sourced locally, according to Rebecca Schulz, a senior oil analyst at the International Energy Agency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Dad emerges from the garage, greasy wrench in hand, clearly still trying to squeeze water from the pipes.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

When the sisters asked the dozens of us crowded into a small room what we wanted for our final song, I piped up: “How about ‘Country Roads’?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

They look bakery-case fancy, especially once the ricotta is piped, but the actual labor involved is satisfyingly minimal.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

One member piped up, "you might want to rethink that line over here".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

But it has historically been piped via neighbouring Sudan.

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

Then came a voice, piped in like a loudspeaker from heaven.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

"I do have a Bake Off tattoo on my ribs - I've got a piping bag, a whisk and a rolling pin," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Kris explains that she knows the studio hired her solely because she’s queer, as only a queer person could revamp an outdated, transphobic slasher franchise without Big Cancel Culture piping in.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have also managed to route millions of barrels a day around the blockade by piping them across the desert to the Gulf of Oman or the Red Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The vineyard has a system of piping spread across 1.85 hectares of the vines, which steadily drips water onto the ground around the plants' roots, and is turned on every few days.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

A second later, music is piping through my earphones, the familiar beat of his track.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu


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