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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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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

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

My main issue with Dekoda was that the info existed in a silo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

She rode the waves to the ledge of the silo and stepped under the jutting roof.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

"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

Creative circles that might feel siloed elsewhere naturally overlap here.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

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 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

Rather than siloing, say, the Navy’s information from the Army’s, their intelligence will be hooked into one big brain to allow coordination and protect assets.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

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


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