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If brands want to keep their customer acquisition funnel alive, they have to stop fending off the refurbished market and start owning it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

With funnel cakes in the shape of her beloved butterfly and fashion exhibits with eye-popping heels and wigs, Dolly Parton’s theme park has history, entertainment, reverence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the distance, I see a funnel of smoke rising into the air.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around us, the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos, are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

He funnels huge amounts of money into those picks so they can win markets and drown out rivals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 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

Palantir began as a defense contractor and has since found other customers selling a platform that funnels data into simple dashboards that use artificial intelligence to aid decision-making.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

Even Admiral Boom had been known to envy Miss Lark her wonderful house, though his own had ship’s funnels instead of chimneys and a flagstaff in the front garden.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers

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

All that saved money gets funneled by state-owned banks into state-owned enterprises and favored industries—artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars—to keep production humming, whether or not anyone at home is actually buying what’s being made.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

In 2003, McLeod’s patrons funneled more than $100,000 through The Fellowship to compensate him.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

Those institutional orders will get funneled through S&P Global’s Equity Bookbuild platform.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Green lights begin flashing from the ceiling, followed by an announcement funneled through the sound boxes nestled in the ceiling corners.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

Much of England's creative work under Tuchel is funnelled through Anderson and Kane, but Ghana's players went man to man to keep them quiet.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

They reported slow "airport style" security checks before the capacity crowd was funnelled through three gates.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 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

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

Chinese artificial intelligence companies attempted to clone American AI models by funneling real Chinese user queries to them via a network of intermediate platforms, Anthropic said in a report published Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has complained that Chinese companies are funneling their goods through other countries, such as sending nearly finished clothes through third countries for final touches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Her mind was whirling, storming, funneling into a twisting tornado.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

Those grants and loans, together with the clean energy tax credits that are also part of the IRA, have been funnelling billions of new federal and private dollars into developing clean energy.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

Helsinki says Moscow is funnelling them to the border, a charge the Kremlin denies.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2023

In funnelling the money into the industry, the French government aims to stop "prices collapsing... so that wine-makers can find sources of revenue again", Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

Our ventilating system utilises the normal fire draught, but also by suitable holes in the funnelling causes the same draught to extract foul air at higher levels.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott