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siphon

[sahy-fuhn] / ˈsaɪ fən /
NOUN
pipe
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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

Prosecutors say that Williamson, Becerra’s then-chief of staff Sean McCluskie and lobbyist Greg Campbell took part in a scheme to siphon money from Becerra’s dormant campaign account and funnel it to McCluskie.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Banks have said it leaves room for interest-like reward structures for popular tokens that could siphon deposits and limit their ability to lend.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

The more you siphon out today, the more you reduce your IRA and future corresponding RMDs.

From Barron's May 9, 2026

Hatsue bent forward and slipped a forefinger inside the siphon.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 14, 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

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

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

“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

They do it because they don’t want to get siphoned up as aggregated data for marketing purposes, and they just want to do whatever they’re doing on the internet with some expectation of privacy.

From Salon Feb. 20, 2026

Both laboratories siphoned off Langley employees, including computers, for their startup staffs.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

Arbitration has also become a massive phenomenon, siphoning countless cases off from the courts into a shadowy, opaque system that nobody can ever truly fully observe.

From Slate Apr. 27, 2026

The three companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from Anthropic’s system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 23, 2026

With Park siphoning off current and funneling it to the ground, the level of voltage that Shin was exposed to as he crawled over his friend’s back was probably not close to being lethal.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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