silo
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To test this idea, the researchers created a computer model that treats floating ice somewhat like grains moving through a silo.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
To create the sequence, Nolan’s team built a sort of silo on the beach, rigging it with minuscule LED lights to mimic sunlight leaking through chinks in the horse’s hull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
But those timings mean he cannot get the cereal straight to a local silo because they are not open then.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Salesforce’s customer relationship management data only represent an isolated silo of its customers’ total footprint, Goldberg said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
On the ground, kids are gazing up, pointing and cheering, as the silo heads out of the atmosphere.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“No one could sit in their silos; we all spent a lot of time in the sandbox together,” he notes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“People get out of their silos and live the way people used to live, which was more intergenerationally,” Steinig said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
Grain elevators are tall, hollow concrete tubes, like silos.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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"I think within the platforms those departments are very siloed - so what we would love is for those conversations to be much more holistic."
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Metal, even when siloed off from broader music culture, has always been a commercial powerhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Chan said then that her work as a pediatrician, and at a Boston housing-project after-school program, had taught her that systems to help children are often siloed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
When the refuse has been siloed for eight months, and 12 per cent. of the animal's weight is used, there will follow a slight daily increase in weight.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various
A two-year technical program runs the risk of siloing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
I’ve noticed this siloing rising in my own life — especially since my family’s run through Seattle public schools ended during the pandemic.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
The show, presented in the gentler vein of "The Great British Bake-Off," was fairly unique for featuring pastry and savory chefs competing against one another as opposed to siloing them.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023
Having the awards themselves on Paramount+ also testifies to the siloing of audiences.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
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