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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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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

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

Humor is derived from individual perception, and it’s hard to see much of the world stuck in the blinding blue light of a digital silo.

From Salon • Sep. 5, 2025

She flew up the river valley, spotted a rat moving along the side of a farm silo, and took it.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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