channeling

especially British, chan·nel·ling

[chan-l-ing]

noun

1. Architecture, Furniture.,  ornamentation with flutes or channels.

2. the practice of professedly entering a meditative or trancelike state in order to convey messages from a spiritual guide.

Word History and Origins

Origin of channeling¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

A Fincantieri spokesman said the company expects the Navy will honor its agreement with the shipbuilder by channeling future work toward other vessels.

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Zhao sees the moment as a collective expression of pain, with Buckley channeling the emotion of the community like a medicine woman.

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When A’zion was younger, she shot her own short movies, eventually channeling her creative instincts into her auditions.

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She has to go to some dark places, channeling Claire’s depression, addiction to painkillers and more — but despite her penchant for playing more carefree women, Hudson says she wasn’t intimidated by the role’s meatier aspects.

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Both the paintings and the earthenware are scribbled with an illegible stream of consciousness poetry that Finley is channeling while making the work — often only visible in texture when the light hits right.

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