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also funnelled
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
Some of those teenagers were lured by ads promising good-paying jobs, only to discover they were being funneled to a Jalisco cartel training camp an hour outside Guadalajara.
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Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
For decades, Maryland funneled Black children into the adult criminal legal system at alarming rates.
—Natasha Dartigue, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2026
The Hillsborough College campus sits in a corner of the Drew Park Community Redevelopment Area, where local property tax dollars are funneled back into the region to address blight.
—Nina Moske, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Now, these animals will be funneled directly to the city animal shelter.
—Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 12 May 2026
And because businesses are owned by tribal governments, large shares of revenue are often funnelled directly into public services, making tribal businesses a critical funding source for local infrastructure and healthcare programs.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 11 May 2026
Moreover, the tax court held that the premium payments were a circular transaction that did little more than funneled those payments right back to the taxpayer.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The company has funneled billions in recent years into the sovereign wealth fund, to finance grandiose giga-projects of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, who chairs the fund, which itself is governed by the chair of Aramco’s board.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 7 May 2026
This has funneled data on residents within the city and a camera network that ICE can use to track immigrants and protesters.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Steve Fisher, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2026
For decades, Maryland funneled Black children into the adult criminal legal system at alarming rates.
—Natasha Dartigue, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2026
The Hillsborough College campus sits in a corner of the Drew Park Community Redevelopment Area, where local property tax dollars are funneled back into the region to address blight.
—Nina Moske, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
Now, these animals will be funneled directly to the city animal shelter.
—Charlie De Mar, CBS News, 12 May 2026
And because businesses are owned by tribal governments, large shares of revenue are often funnelled directly into public services, making tribal businesses a critical funding source for local infrastructure and healthcare programs.
—Tristan Bove, Fortune, 11 May 2026
Moreover, the tax court held that the premium payments were a circular transaction that did little more than funneled those payments right back to the taxpayer.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
The company has funneled billions in recent years into the sovereign wealth fund, to finance grandiose giga-projects of Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, who chairs the fund, which itself is governed by the chair of Aramco’s board.
—Vivienne Walt, Time, 7 May 2026
This has funneled data on residents within the city and a camera network that ICE can use to track immigrants and protesters.
—Teresa Liu, Daily News, 4 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funneled
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Garcia, who wrote and directed the movie, has come up with some crisply clever faux-noir dialogue, and part of the joke is that Joe speaks in his hardboiled pensées while everyone else talks like a normal person.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
21 May 2026
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Human-Originated Decision Rate What percentage of your team's output was directed by specific human intent before the model was engaged and how much was generated by the model and then edited?—
Abhishek Gandotra,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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Moderated by IndieWire’s Anne Thompson, the panel explored how Luna channelled his own experiences with grief into an adaptation of Brenda Navarro’s novel about family separation and emotional displacement.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
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Business development companies, or BDCs, became the vehicle through which much of this capital was channeled and became widely available to retail investors.—
Steven Dudash,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Sullivan says everyday activities suddenly carried risks most people never think about.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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After his father’s death, Crawford carried that tradition into what would eventually become Chop Chop Red Pot.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
22 May 2026
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Throughout 2008 a pilot project was conducted in a Namibian village about 65 miles east of Windhoek.—
Carrie Brandon Elliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Research conducted by one of New Jersey's largest credit unions found a trip down the Jersey Shore is going to cost 11% more this year on average.—
Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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Last year, Rolling Stone reported on Amazon data centers in Eastern Oregon that siphoned tens of millions of gallons of water from state aquifers, worsening a water pollution problem linked to cancer and miscarriages.—
Mary Jane Gibson,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2026
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Taxpayer money is being siphoned off from other priorities, including existing transportation infrastructure.—
Baruch Feigenbaum,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
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Out back, a small sewage-treatment plant converts bodily waste from two flanking portable toilets into purified water, which is piped into a large tank in which yet another unclothed woman, wearing a scuba mouthpiece, floats for four hours at a time.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Before any argon is piped in, the containers must be laced with hundreds of massive wire grids, each composed of thousands of thin hand-strung wires that are now under construction.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 May 2026
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