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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Recent Examples of pipeline
The Danish drugmaker — once the undisputed king of injectable weight-loss drugs — is suddenly trailing rival Eli Lilly in prescriptions, pipeline innovation, and investor confidence.
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Quartz Staff, Quartz, 1 June 2025
Perhaps not nearly to the same extent, but as a way to better protect vital assets like undersea communications and power cables, pipelines, and oil sites, as well as monitoring potential threats and tracking the ever-increasing maritime traffic of the world's sea lanes.
—David Szondy
may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
The Mekorot pipeline connections supply drinking water purchased from Israel.
—Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
Niobium is used in pipelines, rockets and jet engines.
—David Yusufu Kibingila, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
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Quartz Staff, Quartz, 1 June 2025
Perhaps not nearly to the same extent, but as a way to better protect vital assets like undersea communications and power cables, pipelines, and oil sites, as well as monitoring potential threats and tracking the ever-increasing maritime traffic of the world's sea lanes.
—David Szondy
may 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
The Mekorot pipeline connections supply drinking water purchased from Israel.
—Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN Money, 31 May 2025
Niobium is used in pipelines, rockets and jet engines.
—David Yusufu Kibingila, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pipeline
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Process mining is the statistically most popular routes (where there is tracking).—
Ian Gotts,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Every day at the start of practice, the wide receivers line up and run half-speed routes to get loose, while the quarterbacks throw high-arcing passes downfield.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 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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Yerevan has since sought to diversify its defense sources, reducing arms imports from Russia to as low as 10 percent by 2024.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Climate change and shifting food sources are also causing species-wide population declines, the experts said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
8 June 2025
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The younger brother was 9 years old, the outlet reported.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2025
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The play is based on the 2929 Entertainment and participant film of the same name, distributed by Warner Bros., and co-written by Clooney and Grant Heslov, the outlet says.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
7 June 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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“Pipeline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pipeline. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.
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