silo
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Some employees said an organizational silo between Suleyman’s consumer-focused team and teams working on enterprise versions has made it challenging to achieve a unified vision.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Vocational programs were long seen as places to silo academic underperformers into blue-collar work, administrators note.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
In a not-too-distant future when the world has been laid waste by some toxic substance that renders the air poisonous, humanity has been forced underground, into a self-sustaining silo.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
Agriculture officials could start testing every silo of bulk milk, in every state, monthly, said Poulsen, the livestock veterinarian.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024
I call down to Pouncey, who’s working the hand crank that keeps bucket after bucket of chain rising up the rounded side of the silo and spilling in through the opening.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Down on the Farm
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