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 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 On Friday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath highlighted the $77 million and 44 new positions funneled into the county’s Office of Emergency Management. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 Orders placed through the agent are funneled back to the Shop app. — Mia Sato, The Verge, 13 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 The majority of the money retained under the measure’s authority would be funneled to Great Outdoors Colorado and to wildfire-mitigation programs through the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and the Colorado State Forest Service. — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 3 Oct. 2026 Beijing has funneled vast financing and political will toward building its own technology in cutting-edge sectors – like robotics, AI, biotech, space, new energy and chips – and applying that tech into industry. — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026 The Migration Of Power Through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, mainstream attention was funneled through a remarkably small number of gatekeepers. — Julia Ruttner, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

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Five films are directed by filmmakers from outside the Baltic countries, with Baltic talent and expertise playing significant roles in their production.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
The movie, directed by Siân Heder and starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, adapts Gabrielle Zevin’s best-selling novel about game developers.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of directed

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Placed in special education classes and diagnosed with dyslexia at age 12, Dempsey channeled his energy into unicycling, juggling, and skiing.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026
In the 1990s, Comme des Garçons hired her to create a campaign that channeled Roland Barthes.

— Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of channeled

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And while Hill is paying a half-million-dollar price for his battery, the judgment falls well short of expectations the plaintiff may have carried into the start of the trial.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
To ensure the result stood up to scrutiny, the DS's charging port was sealed before departure, and Verstaen carried two GPS trackers during the ride.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of carried

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The International Seabed Authority has granted 17 exploration licenses in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, with five held by China, whose researchers conducted this viral survey.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2026
Officers conducted final checks on the turtles at a conservation center on Serangan Island, also known as Turtle Island, in southern Bali.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of conducted

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Postmortem commentaries on the campaign agreed that many factors were at play in Sinclair’s loss — FDR had kept his distance and progressive candidate Raymond Haight siphoned off votes from Sinclair — but Hollywood proudly took credit.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
But critics countered that the proposal would have siphoned money away from the Chicago Public Schools’ 72 other fine and performing arts campuses.

— Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of siphoned

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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
In direct liquid cooling, a specialized coolant is piped directly to components such as processors, whereas in immersion cooling, servers or other components are immersed in a nonconductive coolant.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

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