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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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Damon, Bernthal and up to 25 others crammed into the dank vessel and clung to its cross beams as cold water pumped in and the silo rocked.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

But those timings mean he cannot get the cereal straight to a local silo because they are not open then.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Salesforce’s customer relationship management data only represent an isolated silo of its customers’ total footprint, Goldberg said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

On June 17, in the middle of Pride Month, the Trump administration’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced that it “will no longer silo LGB+ youth services.”

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

Above Jon Wood’s house, she located the tall silo and circled it.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“People get out of their silos and live the way people used to live, which was more intergenerationally,” Steinig said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

And the more that people exist in algorithmic silos, the more likely they are to be convinced that they have a claim on things they don’t.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

The test highlights China’s upgrading submarine capabilities and its broader military modernization, including new missile silos and upgraded bombers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Where regional authorities have banned harvesting between 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, some silos are now opening overnight.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

So we wanted to find a farm, preferably a big one, with a big barn and silos full of grain, near the mountains.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

These programs are siloed, with no coherent, connecting strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

It is often said that film directors are siloed off from one another, that they don’t get to watch how others work.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2025

"She was just going to continue to do what she was doing, and take money from people because people were siloed right, they didn't know what was going on."

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

The initial decision by engineer Breton to invest in Palantir came as a result of his job as a technical expert at a manufacturing company, where he often dealt with unorganized and siloed data.

From MarketWatch Nov. 25, 2025

When the refuse has been siloed for eight months, and 12 per cent. of the animal's weight is used, there will follow a slight daily increase in weight.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2024

That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2023

Holistic defense involves more collaboration within defense teams, rather than a strict siloing of roles.

From Slate May 1, 2023

And siloing ourselves in our echo chambers distorts everybody's reality.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2022

Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2021




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