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siphon

[sahy-fuhn] / ˈsaɪ fən /
NOUN
pipe
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The bills received a key endorsement from CSU, which has resisted past efforts out of concern that far less costly community college degrees could siphon students from its campuses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Analysts say Winter's rising star could siphon votes from Smotrich's base, potentially preventing his Religious Zionism party from clearing the electoral threshold of 3.25 percent unless it joins a list with another party.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

A digital bill of rights would be a major part of that by boosting privacy and protecting the level of data that corporations can siphon up about ordinary people.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

As CXMT’s target market cap after listing might be much larger than its IPO valuation, it could cause a siphon effect on other stocks, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

They came to a second siphon and knelt again.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

This includes the Revolutionary Guard, which siphons about half the revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

From there, the water flowed by gravity, moving at 3-6 mph as it traveled through pipelines, siphons and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025

But it is different from the previously favoured scenario, in which a white dwarf siphons material from a companion.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023

That’s because there’s minimal local investment by the company, which siphons readership and potential subscribers away from local outlets providing foundational local coverage.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

The parasite clamps onto the intestines and siphons nutrients from the body.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

During the last floods in 2023, many siphoned water from the brimming canals to their fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The siphoned funds financed luxury real estate, a $250 million superyacht and the Hollywood film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” according to the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

A probe into donations allegedly siphoned off at India's grand Ram temple has renewed scrutiny of how religious sites manage vast amounts of cash and gold entrusted to them by devotees.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

“It kind of siphoned all of that pent-up, closeted stuff that you hold back, that you couldn’t freely express,” she said.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

I knew this day would come, and yet the news siphoned the oxygen from our already claustrophobic house.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

Many have blamed this flood of supply for soaking up liquidity and siphoning capital away from existing publicly traded companies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The creditors, who have signed a cooperation agreement to act as a united front, alleged these moves were part of a series of “value siphoning transactions” designed to benefit management at the creditors’ expense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

It condemned illegal tapping and siphoning, warning that such activities put lives, the environment and the economy at risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The videos "crowd-out" posts from actual entrepreneurs with Down syndrome, potentially siphoning away business, Rowe said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Instead of siphoning off food for themselves or to bribe the warders, the new cooks used all the food allotted us.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela


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