silo
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced last year that it would “no longer silo LGB+ youth services” from the general hotline, starting in July 2025.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
To test this idea, the researchers created a computer model that treats floating ice somewhat like grains moving through a silo.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
But those timings mean he cannot get the cereal straight to a local silo because they are not open then.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Salesforce’s customer relationship management data only represent an isolated silo of its customers’ total footprint, Goldberg said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Hours later she was awakened by thunder shaking the old silo.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Both Irvine and Carmel Valley are silos from the problems of the outside world, places where everything might seem perfect, even when it isn’t, her brother said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Towriss was questioned about "blame culture and people forming silos".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The test highlights China’s upgrading submarine capabilities and its broader military modernization, including new missile silos and upgraded bombers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The set was an annual publication, like the World Almanac, and each is full of diagrams of motors, wiring systems, pumps, silos, balers, and so on.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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Creative circles that might feel siloed elsewhere naturally overlap here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
When information isn’t siloed, she said, “you don’t need to find a person that was in the room for that conversation to get a readout of it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The report also highlighted a "siloed way of working" described by some families between the bereavement service, mortuary and funeral directors.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
When the refuse has been siloed for eight months, and 12 per cent. of the animal's weight is used, there will follow a slight daily increase in weight.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
A two-year technical program runs the risk of siloing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
And siloing ourselves in our echo chambers distorts everybody's reality.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
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