Thesaurus results for FUNNELED

funneled

verb

variants also funnelled

past tense of funnel

as in directed

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 funneled Sportsbook operators, including FanDuel and DraftKings, have funneled more than $80 million into state senate and congressional races, via Win for America, a PAC launched in November 2025. — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Instead of paying his victims back, investigators say Bailey funneled the money to himself for his own personal expenses, hiding his use of the funds by having his investors send the money to Jones' special lawyer accounts. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026 Caruso funneled more than $100 million of his own fortune into his 2022 mayoral campaign, outspending Bass 11 to 1. — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026 For some young investors, that means money originally allocated to long-term strategies is being funneled to activities built around immediate outcomes. — Aneri Jambusaria, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2026 Orders placed through the agent are funneled back to the Shop app. — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 Oct. 2026 Elon Musk has quietly funneled more than $276 million into Republican groups and his super PAC since the start of July, building a huge turnout operation to help the party battle headwinds in the midterm elections. — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Uthmeier controlled an anti-recreational marijuana political committee that got nearly $10 million from a Medicaid settlement that the grand jury said was funneled through the Hope Florida Foundation. — Liv Caputo, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Rush funneled $145 million into wire transfers to fund an extravagant lifestyle. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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Volunteers also reported that Basabe continually directed the speaker toward them even after Miami Beach code compliance officers told him that its volume exceeded the city’s noise limit.

— Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
Recent fights and threats at Beyer High The football investigation follows other incidents at Beyer High School in recent weeks, including fights that prompted a campus lockdown and a threatening social media post directed at the school.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of directed

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The actor channeled Effie Trinket in a three-dimensional Robert Wun pink couture ballerina gown, complete with a pillbox hat with another ballerina dancer on top.

— Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2026
The Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, who sings Lincoln, is tall and rightly renowned for his rich, unmuddy voice, here channelled into plausible Midwestern vowels.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026

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In an October poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by The Times, Bass erased an 11-point gap with Raman.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
The rituals were conducted in an effort to restore stability after events such as a famine or drought.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of conducted

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What goes up … But by the midterm year of 1966, much of the energy from LBJ's landslide election in 1964 had been expended — and much more had been siphoned off by his escalation of the war in Vietnam.

— Ron Elving, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026
At each step in this chain, a portion of the electrons’ energy is siphoned off to pump protons across a membrane—Mitchell’s great insight—and the pressure of those protons rushing back through a molecular turbine is what makes ATP.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of siphoned

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The result—which also uses DLSS frame generation to increase the 30 fps source to a 90 fps output—is then piped back to a 4K TV, theoretically adding some of the benefits of a beefy PC graphics card to a console-exclusive game.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026
Storyteller Overland The slim kitchen block comes with a stainless steel sink piped to a 76-L fresh water tank.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026

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