siphon

Yet this immense spending has started to siphon off most of these companies’ free cash flow, spooking investors who are worried about the return on investment.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

And even in if Amazon creates a chip business capable of helping its own stock, it may not have to siphon business from Nvidia to do so.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

The judge described the diversion of public funds as a gross abuse of public trust and said proxy companies and associates were used to siphon money from the projects.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

Prosecutors say that Williamson, Becerra’s then-chief of staff Sean McCluskie and lobbyist Greg Campbell took part in a scheme to siphon money from Becerra’s dormant campaign account and funnel it to McCluskie.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Together, they siphon off an enzyme, which stops the production of a certain hormone, which complicates my life.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

He’s right that fraud undermines public support and siphons money from those who truly need it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2025

Scientists initially blamed this crucial ecosystem’s die-off solely on an unusually strong El Niño, a weather pattern that periodically siphons water away from the western Pacific and lowers local tides.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022

Lumley siphons eyelash-size larvae hatched four months ago out of rearing containers and into a small Plexiglass box called a photarium, where they can be evaluated and measured.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

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

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Twenty years later, all of the money and power in publishing has been siphoned to the very, very rich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

They do it because they don’t want to get siphoned up as aggregated data for marketing purposes, and they just want to do whatever they’re doing on the internet with some expectation of privacy.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

I stayed in the line longer than I expected, before they siphoned me off.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

More than two dozen Iraqi banks, many with close ties to the militias, were banned in 2023 and 2024 by the Treasury Department for siphoning off dollars from Iraq’s Fed accounts through fraudulent wire transfers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

Higher Treasury yields provide competition, siphoning income-hungry investors away capital that could support prices.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

To advocates and education unions, such maneuvers amounted to improper or possibly illegal siphoning — and that’s one detail they were watching for Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Arbitration has also become a massive phenomenon, siphoning countless cases off from the courts into a shadowy, opaque system that nobody can ever truly fully observe.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

Winter had once again clapped itself over Chicago, siphoning the warmth from the air and the blue from the sky.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama