as in directing
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
channelized all of his resources into winning that state's crucial primary
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What’s somewhat wild here is that this came from director Francis Lawrence, best known for directing almost all the Hunger Games movies, including Catching Fire, the two parts of Mockingjay and the recent Ballad of Songs and Snakes.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
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The experiment involved directing an electron beam from the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) onto a hydrogen target inside the CLAS12 detector.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Binns, sober since her 1979 stay at Cumberland Heights rehab in Nashville, often was brash when channeling her passion.—
Brad Schmitt,
Nashville Tennessean,
17 Sep. 2025
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SaaS giants must avoid these pitfalls by channeling resources into green-light augmentation to ensure adoption and trust.—
Wayne Liu,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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That has monumentally changed college sports, of course, funneling schools into the Big Ten and SEC while decimating conferences like our old Pac-12 – but not the appeal of Pac-12 After Dark.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
11 Sep. 2025
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More often, the reports showed groups funneling tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to other groups, without reporting where the money originated.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Start by conducting an internal audit of your own energy efficiency practices and goals.—
Kiyoshi Oka,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Cadillac Formula One team principal Graeme Lowdon confirmed that his team has finished conducting squeeze and impact tests on its 2026 prototype F1 car, becoming the first team to have reached the milestone.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Episode 5 opens with a postal worker’s 2020 account of seeing Sellers naked in the woods, with his face covered, carrying a child’s jacket.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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Ecological changes, including more time for mosquitoes and other disease-carrying bugs to bite you.—
Sara Schilling,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Channelizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/channelizing. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.
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