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In recent years, Tom said, his father had channeled his characteristic man-on-a-mission energy into his new role as caregiver, helping care for his wife, Kathleen O’Donnell Hunt, who had Alzheimer’s disease and died in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2022

More fresh in memory were the explosive lyrics of the rapper Earl Simmons, aka DMX, who had channeled the mean streets of his boyhood Yonkers, New York, into No. 1 albums.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2021

That same night, Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Tim Locastro, a huge Giants fan, swatted three homers in a minor league game and said afterward that he had channeled his frustration into his first at-bat.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2019

He denied a suggestion by a parole board member that he had channeled his obsession with fame into a ministry he runs with his wife that supplies Christian pamphlets to churches in Africa.

From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2018

Now he had one in Isabel, who seemed to direct something of the energy that she had channeled into art and into travel to this boy of mine.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee