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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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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

During his 2005 confirmation hearings to become chief justice, Roberts described an idyllic heartland childhood lifted from a John Cougar Mellencamp song, all “endless fields” that were “punctuated by an isolated silo or a barn.”

From Slate May 7, 2026

On June 17, in the middle of Pride Month, the Trump administration’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced that it “will no longer silo LGB+ youth services.”

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

And if the creature in that silo was one, it was even more gigantic than the average pteranodon.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

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

The microfame experienced by influencers whose days are spent in algorithmic silos is fragile.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

The imposing grain silos at Beirut’s port mostly withstood last year’s massive explosion — but now serve as reminders of negligence and destruction.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

High-income tax planning here means coordinating healthcare and tax strategy, not optimizing them in silos.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

Of course when my father explained, I realized I’d seen silos all over the country; I just hadn’t known what they were called.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

The report also highlighted a "siloed way of working" described by some families between the bereavement service, mortuary and funeral directors.

From BBC Jul. 18, 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

He argues that healthcare remains maddeningly stuck at Step 2, as practitioners struggle to connect siloed information.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 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

"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2024

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

Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2021

Having the awards themselves on Paramount+ also testifies to the siloing of audiences.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2021

Intentionally seeking out and establishing relationships with friends who eschew romantic siloing is possible and will go a long way toward making your future seem less like an open question.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2020




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