funnel
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Simply Good’s self-diagnostic also revealed the company was focusing too heavily on the lower funnel at the expense of branding in social media, on streaming TV and with influencers, according to Scalzo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The odd-looking waste management system looks a bit like a futuristic torture device, with a crenelated funnel and hose to suck up urine and a small, vacuum-sealed hole for defecating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
It’s that it’s much more difficult to parse through an algorithmic funnel of opinions and perspectives that can often appear half-formed or entirely outside their context.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
The commission found City had broken rules over a nine-year period to 2018 by creating "sham" contracts with commercial partners to secretly funnel more than £830m into football operations.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
When the glaciers melted, water gushed south, creating the Mississippi River and the Illinois and Missouri Rivers that funnel into it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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 hot air rises off the desert floor, cooler air pours down from above and funnels between the mountain ranges, sending unpredictable gusts sweeping across the tennis complex.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 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
Marketing shifted from campaign bursts to always‑on funnels and A/B testing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
By the time they finished discussing the label for the vinegar, Chacko and Comrade Pillai had each acquired personal mosquito funnels.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Later that year, FTX filed for bankruptcy after failing to return customer funds it had secretly funneled to Alameda.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
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
They’d fitted it with barrels, and a channel in the floor caught runoff and funneled it out to the gardens.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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But not all of it is funnelled into learning.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
With wide play an area of concern, play is often funnelled back infield.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
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
At the foot of the gully, where it funnelled to a sheer drop, I stepped from under my shelter and met the youngster, holding out a golf-ball.
From Foe-Farrell by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Most voters interviewed by AFP agreed that Collins had done well in funneling federal funding back to Maine over the years and that 58-year-old newcomer Jackson would not be so successful.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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
The story about Aspiration Partners funneling $28 million to Kawhi Leonard continues to amaze me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 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
The main street must be nearby, Cora thought, funneling the town.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
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
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
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