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siphon

[sahy-fuhn] / ˈsaɪ fən /
NOUN
pipe
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The bills received a key endorsement from CSU, which has resisted past efforts out of concern that far less costly community college degrees could siphon students from its campuses.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 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

Meanwhile, everyone has an opinion on why the siphon isn’t working—but our knowledge of this lost art is limited to fifth-grade science labs and movies.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

This includes the Revolutionary Guard, which siphons about half the revenue.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 2026

From there, the water flowed by gravity, moving at 3-6 mph as it traveled through pipelines, siphons and tunnels.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 27, 2025

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

Lumley siphons eyelash-size larvae hatched four months ago out of rearing containers and into a small Plexiglass box called a photarium, where they can be evaluated and measured.

From Seattle Times Sep. 23, 2022

The parasite clamps onto the intestines and siphons nutrients from the body.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The candidate is linked to — but not accused of any wrongdoing in — a corruption case involving two former advisors and a lobbyist who siphoned $225,000 money from one of Becerra’s campaign accounts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The sentence matched the minimum requested for Guo, in his late 50s and also known as Miles Kwok, arguing he siphoned more than $1 billion in funds raised from his followers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 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

A hundred smithereens of darkness, they broke apart and re-formed and siphoned themselves into a little typhoon that swept down toward the rooftops of Weep, whirling and wheeling on soft twilight wings.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It condemned illegal tapping and siphoning, warning that such activities put lives, the environment and the economy at risk.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

One individual was charged in connection with allegedly siphoning funds from a company involved in the case.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Higher Treasury yields provide competition, siphoning income-hungry investors away capital that could support prices.

From Barron's May 15, 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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