channelize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelize these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012
“It would be a true homage to her memory if we are able to channelize these emotions and energies into a constructive course of action.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2012
As a result, the SCS is modifying its ambitious plans to "channelize" up to 150,000 miles of U.S. waterways.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nonviolent resistance also provides a creative force through which men can channelize their discontent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imagine streets and sidewalks with healthy tree canopies, permeable paving, and green infrastructure that captures rainwater for recharge or reuse, so it enters the water table instead of being directed to our channelized rivers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
About 5,000 gallons went into the concrete vault that houses the pressure gauges, until it began to overflow and run down a slight slope into a channelized portion of a salmon stream below.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Yet California squandered much of the bounty from its recent unusually wet winter, as levees, channelized rivers and paved cities funneled much of the runoff into the ocean rather than capturing it.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2023
Settlers drained and channelized the vast California delta and beyond.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2023
I seem to feel that it wants something, that its direction has become more channelized.
From The Issahar Artifacts by Bone, Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin)
Their solution was to lay millions of barrels of concrete to get rid of that water faster — channelizing the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
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