silo

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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

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

But if you go to the right, you can see the Encino Reservoir and eventually you get to a decommissioned Nike missile silo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025

It is not clear whether the silo that exploded was fitted with a flame arrester at any point.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

Without grain in the silo, jars of olive oil in the cellar, cheese in the pantry and sausages hanging from the rafters, they would starve in bad years.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari