siphon

Banks have increasingly braced for the threat that stablecoins become widely adopted, especially if crypto firms are able to siphon deposits from banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The judge described the diversion of public funds as a gross abuse of public trust and said proxy companies and associates were used to siphon money from the projects.

From BBC ● May 20, 2026

“We believe this case was nothing more than a lawyer-driven attempt to siphon off charitable funds for their own gain,” the spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

The more you siphon out today, the more you reduce your IRA and future corresponding RMDs.

From Barron's ● May 9, 2026

Seriously, I have no idea where Mr. Neely finds all his excitement, but I wish I could siphon some of it off and give it to Mom.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

It is part of a growing chorus of online media companies expressing frustration with the tech giant as AI changes the way people ask questions, siphons off search traffic and upends publishers’ revenue models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Instead, it siphons the Colorado’s flow into the All-American Canal, delivering five times as much water to Imperial as Los Angeles uses in a year — and 10 times as much as Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

Scientists initially blamed this crucial ecosystem’s die-off solely on an unusually strong El Niño, a weather pattern that periodically siphons water away from the western Pacific and lowers local tides.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022

Lumley siphons eyelash-size larvae hatched four months ago out of rearing containers and into a small Plexiglass box called a photarium, where they can be evaluated and measured.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2022

The parasite clamps onto the intestines and siphons nutrients from the body.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The trustee alleged that Calce and other insiders had improperly siphoned away cash and other assets.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

“It kind of siphoned all of that pent-up, closeted stuff that you hold back, that you couldn’t freely express,” she said.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

Uber says its ballot measure will give victims a larger cut of their settlement money, rather than the payout getting siphoned off primarily to attorneys and doctors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

Ms. Rodríguez, according to sources, siphoned profits through networks of international and domestic businessmen while building PR machinery to sanitize her image.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026

I stayed in the line longer than I expected, before they siphoned me off.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Higher Treasury yields provide competition, siphoning income-hungry investors away capital that could support prices.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

To advocates and education unions, such maneuvers amounted to improper or possibly illegal siphoning — and that’s one detail they were watching for Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Arbitration has also become a massive phenomenon, siphoning countless cases off from the courts into a shadowy, opaque system that nobody can ever truly fully observe.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

Over two dozen Iraqi banks, many with militia ties, were banned by the Treasury in 2023 and 2024 for siphoning dollars from Iraq’s Fed accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

Winter had once again clapped itself over Chicago, siphoning the warmth from the air and the blue from the sky.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama