Thesaurus results for FUNNELING

funneling

verb

variants also funnelling

present participle of funnel

as in directing

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 funneling High oil prices due to the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz granted Putin a temporary reprieve, but a labor shortage and constrained manufacturing capacity have complicated the Kremlin’s hopes of funneling more money into its defense sector. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 June 2026 If Iran’s atomic weapons infrastructure was destroyed in this war, funneling hundreds of billions into the country can’t be used to rebuild it. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 21 June 2026 Prosecutors alleged a conspiracy to influence Madigan by funneling payments to do-nothing subcontractors and other political perks to the speaker and then washing it from the utility’s books. — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026 In the countdown to SpaceX’s stock market launch on Friday, the company’s political action committee has shifted increasingly to the right, funneling contributions heavily toward Republicans before the midterm elections, an NBC News review of Federal Election Commission records has found. — David Ingram, NBC news, 11 June 2026 By using air, water, and microbiology, the system turns food waste to environmentally safe liquid; then funneling refuse into Manhattan sewage, reducing heaps of landfill waste from production. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 June 2026 The airflow path is from the sides and out the back, funneling air not only over the heat pipes but to surrounding components. — John Burek, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026 Microsoft is the cleanest example, with GitHub, Windows, Office, and Azure all funneling into one another. — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 The lawsuits are part of a larger effort to ensure that news providers are fairly compensated in a world where chatbots and other AI tools are funneling their news to consumers at scale. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 28 May 2026

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She is joined by Indonesian director Yosep Anggi Noen as directing mentor and cinematographer Park Junghun as cinematography mentor.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 July 2026
On Friday, Putin visited the Russian military headquarters directing the action in Ukraine to receive a report on the capture of the city of Kostyantynivka after weeks of intense street battles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

Definition of directing

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Next, get your hands dirty while channeling your inner paleontologist at American Fossil in the South Dempsey Quarry.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026
The new batch of episodes will also have a fresh theme, which Chen Moonves teased as channeling iconic moments from Big Brother history and time-bending twists that would directly impact the game.

— Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of channeling

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Now, mosquitoes carrying West Nile have been found in 10 cities, with the latest being Fullerton and Anaheim.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
The new frontier is cumulative stress, a running tally of how much strain your body is carrying from work, poor sleep, illness, travel, emotional load and exercise combined.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026

Definition of carrying

Verb

The shooting remains under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, while the FBI’s Houston field office is conducting a separate investigation, according to ICE.

— Angelique Brenes, PEOPLE, 8 July 2026
After conducting a 30-minute test drive in the outskirts of the capital last year, Turing has replicated the experiment in multiple, more congested areas across the country.

— Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Definition of conducting

Verb

Advertisement But the recent surge of new groups has confused CEOs, donors, and other key constituencies by pursuing often wildly divergent messages and contradictory agendas, inadvertently establishing circular firing squads, undermining unity, and siphoning resources from credible expert voices.

— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
The City Council pushes back by siphoning from long-term infrastructure needs.

— Paul Krueger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2026

Definition of siphoning

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