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conduit

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


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Since the war began, Iran has claimed control over the Strait of Hormuz, a vital global energy conduit, and repeatedly targeted vessels attempting to cross without its authorisation.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Kim met Saturday with a handful of senior Beijing officials—though not Chinese leader Xi Jinping—in the Chinese border city of Dandong, the main conduit for North Korea’s trade with the outside world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“The challenging thing is he’s sort of a conduit to her.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

"We will learn from this and keep inclusion at the core of all we do, maintaining our belief in film and storytelling as a critical conduit for compassion and empathy."

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

As Barack’s adviser, I was meant to act as a social conduit more than anything.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

The pipelines, which linked Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea, were the world’s largest offshore gas conduits at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 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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