siphon
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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