funnel
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The White House said the global exemption was being used to "evade tariffs and funnel deadly synthetic opioids" to the US.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
As a means of crowd control, the National Park Service has attempted to funnel people out of the valley, where the majority of tourists spend their time and into its less frequented locations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
He said that investors want to see evidence that Adobe’s “freemium” funnel will translate to durable paid-subscriber growth, and not weaken the pricing power for its premium offerings.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Specifically, the court noted that existing disclosure laws and rules about earmarking donations already act as disincentives for donors hoping to use parties as a means to indirectly funnel money to candidates.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026
Roy Lee gently took the funnel from Mom’s hand and inserted it into the Auk casement.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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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
As Silicon Valley now funnels untold riches into server farms around the country, Rizer said, “I wait for those guys to call me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 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
What funnels someone to me after their long and complicated journey is often an abnormality unseen or unfelt to them: an opacity on a chest X-ray.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
The headlights came on and cut twin funnels of light in the rain.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
This evolution was thanks to a daring business move from Huang, who funneled the profits Nvidia generated from its gaming business to develop a software layer called Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
According to prosecutors, McCluskie, Williamson, and another consultant skimmed $225,000 from one of Becerra’s dormant campaign accounts and funneled it to McCluskie through various entities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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OpenAI lawyers have suggested that she funnelled information about OpenAI to Musk after he in 2018 left the AI company, which he co-founded and made early donations to.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
It is also unclear how much daily imported energy China is using right away, and how much is being funnelled into its oil reserves, says Hansen.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
When City had the ball, United's 4-4-2 funnelled them into wide areas, where they defended with four players.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 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
The water was calm, and we cut across "the moon way," that funnelled off to the shores of Canada.
From D'Ri and I by Bacheller, Irving
Anthropic, despite its push to source as much compute as possible, may decide to stop funneling its cash to a rival.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
Japan wants to become an asset management superpower, funneling an estimated $7 trillion in mattress money and low-yielding bank accounts into its booming stock market.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
By funneling its characters into every monetizable outlet imaginable—merchandise, books and comics, soundtracks, park attractions, Broadway and ice shows, corporate partnerships—Disney amortized costs across the many flywheel revenue opportunities spanning decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
“They're for funneling light before we get our channellors. But we don't get them until we're Level Twos. My older sister let me use hers once, though.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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 Scott, Robert Falcon
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