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pipeline

[pahyp-lahyn] / ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn /








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The scale of the pipeline build-out, however, will depend on oil producers’ willingness to invest in new production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s especially true for Saudi Arabia, which turned to its East-West pipeline and exports through the Red Sea to sidestep the trouble in Hormuz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Consider an oil pipeline in California that had been shut down for roughly a decade after a catastrophic spill.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Students whose majors have traditionally been a pipeline to jobs that can easily be automated were less likely to find a job within a year of graduating, Dallas Fed economists wrote Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

A pipeline of vision went through the door crack, between two giant candles from Palermo and under an amber lampshade from Poland.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

The rule applies to any FDA-regulated mail shipment from any country, including smaller medication pipelines from India, the United Kingdom, Australia and Turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

“We fundamentally believe there is going to be a massive build-out of new natural gas-fired facilities, and in order for those facilities to run, you need the pipelines to connect to them.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Potential applications include concrete pavements, highway parapet walls, and sewer pipelines.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

A drone attack that heavily damaged one of Saudi Arabia’s pipelines is expected to cause crude oil exports to fall by 400,000 barrels per day this month alone.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

For instance, during the War, after the pipelines were blown up, he and his classmates had ferried water up to the girls’ dorm, each leaving his bucket at the door of a particular resident.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

It could be pipelined to Murmansk, liquefied and shipped to the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The glass-bottom boats that take tourists out to marvel at the Gulf of Aqaba's coral formations rock in the swells of supertankers bringing Persian Gulf oil into Eilat to be. pipelined to the Mediterranean.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blackford Oakes, Yale '51, is pipelined by the old-boy network straight into the CIA.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a pipelined machine, this can take a while.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Guy L. Steele

On a pipelined machine, this can take a while. :stale pointer bug: /n./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Eric S. Raymond

“We’re pipelining our deployment playbook across several cities simultaneously now.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023




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