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
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
McAfee, not fully grasping why people would want to drink milk that was unpasteurized, nonetheless went to his silo, filled half-gallon containers and packed them in ice chests.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
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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Data that sit in silos rob machine-learning models and AI agents of much of their power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Towriss was questioned about "blame culture and people forming silos".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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
Back toward Black Swan Green, Dawn Madden's farm silos, a spiral staircase of smoke, the Christmas-tree plantation, Saint Gabriel's spire, and its two nearly-as-tall redwoods.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
“Social-connection policy cannot be siloed, it must be woven into the fabric of how government and communities serve people.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
Perplexity said it keeps health chats siloed from general conversations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
“Television was reasonably siloed … ABC took a long time deciding because they could see that there was something about it, but in the end they passed.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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
"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024
Holistic defense involves more collaboration within defense teams, rather than a strict siloing of roles.
From Slate ● May 1, 2023
But it can be more advantageous than siloing ourselves off from others.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 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
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