as in to direct
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
funneled endless time and money into his misguided pet project
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Recent Examples of funnel
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
24 June 2026
Its challenge is making Instagram a primary platform for creators, not just a way to funnel fans to their YouTube pages, where pay for personalities like MrBeast is higher.
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Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
By abandoning static product pages, the collaborative platform swaps out the traditional, tedious e-commerce funnel for a fully conversational shopping experience.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
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Verb
To conceal the bribes, the payments were allegedly funneled through an account that Frank Carone's brother, Anthony Carone, controlled, the indictment said.
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Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
24 June 2026
Its challenge is making Instagram a primary platform for creators, not just a way to funnel fans to their YouTube pages, where pay for personalities like MrBeast is higher.
—
Rohan Goswami,
semafor.com,
23 June 2026
Noun
The courses can be tiny, from a teeny teacup of hot chicken broth infused with the aged Alpine echo of Pleasant Ridge Reserve cheese or a squiggly sweet funnel cake dusted with spicebush berry sugar.
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Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
By abandoning static product pages, the collaborative platform swaps out the traditional, tedious e-commerce funnel for a fully conversational shopping experience.
—
Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
16 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for funnel
Verb
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In Texas, parents have the fundamental legal right to direct the moral and religious upbringing of their children without state interference.
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In the movie, directed by Reiner, those are the three words Westley (Cary Elwes) uses while responding to requests from Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright).
Noun
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Drivers wear vests which pump cooling liquid through a network of tubes, linked to pumping equipment inside the car.
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The characters have little time to make life-or-death decisions, let alone ruminate, and the action vacillates between triage and doctors expertly improvising solutions — like Mel (Taylor Dearden) donating her own blood, and Javadi (Shabana Azeez) going MacGyver mode with a tracheal tube.
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The theme continues with gold contrast stitching and embroidered eyelets in the same color to suggest rivets, as well as piping on the heel taking after the interior of selvedge denim.
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Copper, also on the list, has traditional uses such as piping for plumbing, but is also needed in electronics and the automotive industry.
Verb
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In Seattle, there was a sense of the team harnessing the crowd’s energy, and of the crowd channelling the energy emanating far beyond.
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As an artist who often publicly discusses mental health struggles, Caudle was willing to channel the anxiety that comes with impending parenthood throughout the process of writing and recording Heavy Thrill.
Verb
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If discovering tiny insect casings or sticky residue, this often indicates those insects with piercing and sucking mouthparts that slowly siphon sap from plants, depleting their ability to feed themselves through photosynthesis.
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According to Stanford’s White, although Union Pacific had a huge amount of capital, much of it was siphoned off to the Credit Mobilier, the construction company working on the project, which was owned by insiders at the time.
Verb
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Once, there was a showdown with another tour bus — one presumably not carrying theatergoers.
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The spacious purse comes with two strap options, so it can also be carried as a crossbody.
Verb
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No homes had been lost, and Utah Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful back-burn operation to protect the town.
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The artwork, the name of which has not been revealed, was stumbled on by police during a search conducted in the Île-de-France region.
Verb
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The Don River flowing through Toronto into Lake Ontario had been channelized, encased in concrete, and diverted nearly at a right angle to output at a different location.
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Upstream from Upper Klamath Lake, a key tributary was channelized and wetlands drained, resulting in massive amounts of phosphorus flowing into the Upper Klamath Lake and, eventually, the lower river.
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“Funnel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funnel. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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