siphon
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He certainly did not have the personality to siphon any fans from a LeBron James-led Lakers team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
A digital bill of rights would be a major part of that by boosting privacy and protecting the level of data that corporations can siphon up about ordinary people.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Yet this immense spending has started to siphon off most of these companies’ free cash flow, spooking investors who are worried about the return on investment.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
After acquiring several small life-insurance companies, they charged, Lindberg orchestrated a scheme to siphon at least $2 billion from their books to companies he controlled, using a web of loans involving affiliated entities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
Tayo used to stand in the big sandstone cave and hold the siphon hose under the water in the shallow pool where the spring water splashed down from the west wall of the cave.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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It is part of a growing chorus of online media companies expressing frustration with the tech giant as AI changes the way people ask questions, siphons off search traffic and upends publishers’ revenue models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Instead, it siphons the Colorado’s flow into the All-American Canal, delivering five times as much water to Imperial as Los Angeles uses in a year — and 10 times as much as Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023
Scientists initially blamed this crucial ecosystem’s die-off solely on an unusually strong El Niño, a weather pattern that periodically siphons water away from the western Pacific and lowers local tides.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 1, 2022
That’s because there’s minimal local investment by the company, which siphons readership and potential subscribers away from local outlets providing foundational local coverage.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
The siphons at the ends of their necks glistened.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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The siphoned funds financed luxury real estate, a $250 million superyacht and the Hollywood film “The Wolf of Wall Street,” according to the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A probe into donations allegedly siphoned off at India's grand Ram temple has renewed scrutiny of how religious sites manage vast amounts of cash and gold entrusted to them by devotees.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
The trustee alleged that Calce and other insiders had improperly siphoned away cash and other assets.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
“It kind of siphoned all of that pent-up, closeted stuff that you hold back, that you couldn’t freely express,” she said.
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
Perhaps without realizing it I became secretly envious; for one thing, I know I could not help seeing some of my younger brother Reginald’s lifelong admiration for me getting siphoned olf to Philbert.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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It condemned illegal tapping and siphoning, warning that such activities put lives, the environment and the economy at risk.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
More than two dozen Iraqi banks, many with close ties to the militias, were banned in 2023 and 2024 by the Treasury Department for siphoning off dollars from Iraq’s Fed accounts through fraudulent wire transfers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Other product lines Tan has brought together, including data-center switches and software, are siphoning even more AI economics toward Broadcom.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
To advocates and education unions, such maneuvers amounted to improper or possibly illegal siphoning — and that’s one detail they were watching for Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Winter had once again clapped itself over Chicago, siphoning the warmth from the air and the blue from the sky.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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