funnel
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Alphabet is instead choosing to funnel resources to its Google Cloud business, which Nathanson believes is a more profitable strategy than “chasing frontier leadership at any cost.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
These areas are used to strong winds at this time of year but if the windy conditions funnel through the central lowlands there could be some disruption.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
We had a probably bit of aluminum foil and I had a funnel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Eby sees the mRNA vaccine business as a potential customer-acquisition funnel: The initial sequencing brings the patient into the Tempus ecosystem, while recurring MRD testing could bring them back for years of monitoring.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She felt as if she were trapped in a funnel cloud of plants.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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The residents, who still believe the Whanki Museum had the funnels installed, want them to reveal what was in them, so experts can treat the ginkgo.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The whales were believed to have died in such numbers in this particular area because it is a popular foraging habitat -- and has a V-shaped trench that funnels carcasses to the seafloor.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
But versatility is also a lost art — collateral damage during the construction of the pipeline that directly funnels social media stars to the screen.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
A more moderate Santa Ana wind event typically funnels gusts through canyons, but isn’t powerful enough to climb mountains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The headlights came on and cut twin funnels of light in the rain.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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The owners allegedly underreported how much they paid their employees by more than $100,000 each year and funneled profits through mortgage payments and investments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
After the chip stocks’ run-up in recent weeks, traders on Monday funneled a record $437 million into an ETF designed to triple traders’ bearish bets on a second semiconductor index, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Earlier this year, Lewin funneled $3.8 billion to a small arm of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quadrupling the budget of the agency.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Those institutional orders will get funneled through S&P Global’s Equity Bookbuild platform.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
Still, the bulk of the family’s headrights had been funneled to Mollie Burkhart, whose wealth was controlled by Ernest.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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Every attack was funnelled out wide before a hopeful cross was delivered and cleared in what was essentially a set-piece defending drill.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
He told BBC Scotland News a lack of a "meaningful queuing structure" saw thousands of fans funnelled through "a series of bottlenecks and pinch points".
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Millions more were funnelled into art by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, a private jet, and the production of the Hollywood movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" by Najib's stepson.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
Businessman Mr Low, who funnelled money to Michel, was accused of stealing about $4bn from Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund during the infamous 1MDB scandal.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
Then the U.P. engine panted up, with its burnished bands and balloon stack, that reminded you of the skirts the women wore, save that it funnelled down.
From The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories by Cy Warman
Cheat Code: Chinese AI companies attempted to clone American AI models by funneling real Chinese user queries to them via a network of intermediate platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The story about Aspiration Partners funneling $28 million to Kawhi Leonard continues to amaze me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Roberts, the suit alleged, was the hub of the operation, funneling fake art through his gallery from multiple sources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
With American refiners funneling the fuel oil into international markets, the domestic supply has dwindled, driving up prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
You see it in the slate gray of a pristine Mercedes-Benz, the gray-white fumes funneling out the back, the gray mop of hair of the unsmiling woman at the wheel.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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Liverpool have often pressed in a 4-4-2 diamond shape, initially encouraging opponents to play short before launching more aggressive pressing sequences, often funnelling the ball centrally before trying to win it back.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He said high pressure over Europe was funnelling hot air north from northern Africa, with the weather system hindering cloud formation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Helsinki says Moscow is funnelling them to the border, a charge the Kremlin denies.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2023
Mr Jones - who has declared both personal and business bankruptcy - has been accused of funnelling money to friends and family in an attempt to hide his assets.
From BBC ● May 29, 2023
It is a bold step to make holes in the funnelling as obviously any uncertainty of draught might fill the hut with smoke.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
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