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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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To test this idea, the researchers created a computer model that treats floating ice somewhat like grains moving through a silo.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Dactyls scattered to either side as Stella exploded into the air above the silo.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“No one could sit in their silos; we all spent a lot of time in the sandbox together,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Data that sit in silos rob machine-learning models and AI agents of much of their power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

“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

Central Maryland stretched away to the horizon in folds and hollows, in bands of trees and rumpled fields, studded by silos that marked the presence of family farms.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

"I think within the platforms those departments are very siloed - so what we would love is for those conversations to be much more holistic."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rosé will perform at the gala, a fundraiser that seeks to draw the previously more siloed visual art and movie worlds in Los Angeles closer together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

When you find one that is gracious enough to host you, it can feel like discovering a rare gem in a mine of homebodies and those siloed to their own friend groups or families.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

One place where information is siloed is in private meetings or workplace chat channels like Slack.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

A two-year technical program runs the risk of siloing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2024

Rather than siloing, say, the Navy’s information from the Army’s, their intelligence will be hooked into one big brain to allow coordination and protect assets.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023

I’ve noticed this siloing rising in my own life — especially since my family’s run through Seattle public schools ended during the pandemic.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023

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


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