silo
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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
They live in a silo for two, sharing their pain, icing their scars.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
This tension, he said, was compounded by subsequent U.S. intelligence reports alleging that widespread corruption had rendered some of these missiles nonfunctional—including claims of defective silo lids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
She flew up the river valley, spotted a rat moving along the side of a farm silo, and took it.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Both Irvine and Carmel Valley are silos from the problems of the outside world, places where everything might seem perfect, even when it isn’t, her brother said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Towriss was questioned about "blame culture and people forming silos".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
To be successful in achieving Bessent’s objectives, the U.S. government will need a comprehensive framework for industrial policies that treats geoeconomics, AI and energy as intertwined domains, not as separate silos.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The test highlights China’s upgrading submarine capabilities and its broader military modernization, including new missile silos and upgraded bombers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Preacher Ken shows them the chicken house, egg sorters, milking machines, grain silos, and communal kitchen.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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One place where information is siloed is in private meetings or workplace chat channels like Slack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
When coupled with open and interoperable ecosystems, AI can surface insights from previously siloed solutions, helping utilities better forecast disruptions, manage flexible demand, improve customer communication and accelerate decision-making during major events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Moskowitz called this view “overly reductive,” arguing that Palantir competes at the operational layer instead of the model layer by organizing siloed enterprise data and embedding AI into workflows.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
It is often said that film directors are siloed off from one another, that they don’t get to watch how others work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2025
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
But over the last decade it’s become even lonelier, with algorithms and vertical video platforms like TikTok siloing users into consumption over interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
Holistic defense involves more collaboration within defense teams, rather than a strict siloing of roles.
From Slate ● May 1, 2023
Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2021
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