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pipeline

[pahyp-lahyn] / ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn /








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Copper's biggest clients are worried that Chile "does not have a significant production-increase pipeline in sight," said Guajardo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The East-West pipeline, which connects Saudi Arabia’s oil-producing Eastern Province to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, has a capacity of around 7 million barrels a day, including roughly 2 million barrels for domestic refineries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Carney, who was raised in the province, has exempted Alberta from some environmental measures and backed a new oil pipeline to the coast of British Columbia, declaring it a project in the country’s national interest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Carney, who was raised in Alberta, has worked with Smith to address some of these issues, signing an agreement that would see a new pipeline from Alberta built to Canada's pacific coast.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

This photograph shows members of many tribes who gathered at Standing Rock in North Dakota in an effort to stop a pipeline that threatened an essential water source.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The government has also outlined plans for stronger criminal penalties for those convicted of tampering with either undersea internet cables or energy pipelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Under the plan, U.K. gas network operator National Gas will be able recover the costs of maintaining the gas import capability and pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

China’s controls on ESS capacity could also change the industry dynamics with more focus on project pipelines, which should benefit leading domestic battery players, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Great Britain is integrated with wider European gas markets and physically linked to the continent through undersea pipelines.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

In this time, in this place, the world had gone mad with lush and green, throwing vines over old electrical poles and belching up rotten pipelines from the ground.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond

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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