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An investigation found that the team had facilitated outside payments to superstar Kawhi Leonard, designed to funnel extra money beyond what the league’s salary cap allows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

“While investors may have thought of Copilot as an AI model in itself, it is already working as a tool that helps funnel queries and tasks to the appropriate model,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the center of the room, an armored giant struggled under the weight of a swirling funnel cloud—Adas, holding up the sky.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Marketing shifted from campaign bursts to always‑on funnels and A/B testing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

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

“There’s an awful lot of financial logic to this,” said Lambert, 37, whose club funnels much of that profit to migrant-aid groups, charities for the homeless or others providing medical assistant to Palestine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

It later emerged the ship was far from finished - windows were painted on, temporary funnels were made of plywood and, more importantly, huge amounts of engineering and electrical work were still required inside.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

I don’t start my own list of boat funnels or butterflies.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

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

In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California- based aerospace industry, and the boom was on.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

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

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

Rijkenberg told parliament the money received from the United States was funnelled into the account of Eswatini's disaster agency, NDMA.

From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025

And while I sat there pondering upon the possibilities, the Mate came up with an expression of immense cunning on his face, his hand funnelled round his mouth, and whispered 'Seen 'em, Mister?'

From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

They contend that the higher costs will be passed along to consumers, and they also take issue with funneling a new funding source to a niche industry without going through the budget process.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

It seems there is possibly a second sponsor, Daktronics, that is funneling money to Kawhi Leonard for doing nothing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

The drugmaker tried three times to force a settlement through bankruptcy, funneling the claims into a subsidiary and putting that subsidiary into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

The main street must be nearby, Cora thought, funneling the town.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Alliance Party councillor Jill Truesdale also lives in the area and described seeing the water "funnelling down the mountain".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

The expected failure of the bill would mean an existing visa policy, which has been widely accused of exacerbating problems by funnelling most international students to a select few city-based universities, will remain in place.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2023

Then the funnelling wind tore the pinnacled rock tops clear of the billowing mist.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut