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also funnelling
as in channeling
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
That has monumentally changed college sports, of course, funneling schools into the Big Ten and SEC while decimating conferences like our old Pac-12 – but not the appeal of Pac-12 After Dark.
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
More often, the reports showed groups funneling tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to other groups, without reporting where the money originated.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The National Institutes of Health is funneling money away from new mRNA technologies toward a single project developing universal vaccines based on traditional whole-virus vaccine technology.
—Deborah Fuller, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
With the Luxury Tax system, clubs over a particular threshold, as well as in multiple years, and by how much, have created penalties paid by these clubs that now see a larger percentage of them funneling back to the clubs as a form of revenue sharing.
—Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The National Institutes of Health is funneling money away from new mRNA technologies toward a single project developing universal vaccines based on traditional whole-virus vaccine technology.
—Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
The rollout raised questions about why the Justice Department had not simply disclosed the documents directly to the public rather than funneling them through Congress.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The investigation centered on Altice procurement contracts, which prosecutors believed Pereira had used to enrich himself, by funnelling business toward particular suppliers.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Computer science jobs were once the hot ticket to six-figure salaries, and men in particular were funneling into the industry, hoping to make big bucks in tech.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
More often, the reports showed groups funneling tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to other groups, without reporting where the money originated.
—Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 10 Sep. 2025
The National Institutes of Health is funneling money away from new mRNA technologies toward a single project developing universal vaccines based on traditional whole-virus vaccine technology.
—Deborah Fuller, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
With the Luxury Tax system, clubs over a particular threshold, as well as in multiple years, and by how much, have created penalties paid by these clubs that now see a larger percentage of them funneling back to the clubs as a form of revenue sharing.
—Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The National Institutes of Health is funneling money away from new mRNA technologies toward a single project developing universal vaccines based on traditional whole-virus vaccine technology.
—Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
The rollout raised questions about why the Justice Department had not simply disclosed the documents directly to the public rather than funneling them through Congress.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
The investigation centered on Altice procurement contracts, which prosecutors believed Pereira had used to enrich himself, by funnelling business toward particular suppliers.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Computer science jobs were once the hot ticket to six-figure salaries, and men in particular were funneling into the industry, hoping to make big bucks in tech.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funneling
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For those feeling especially upset over this video, Anderson recommends examining those feelings and channeling them in healthy, productive ways.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The 5-foot-10 actor of Training Day and Before Sunset was tasked with channeling a man many said was barely 5 feet tall with waning hair.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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What’s somewhat wild here is that this came from director Francis Lawrence, best known for directing almost all the Hunger Games movies, including Catching Fire, the two parts of Mockingjay and the recent Ballad of Songs and Snakes.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The experiment involved directing an electron beam from the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) onto a hydrogen target inside the CLAS12 detector.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Without an influx of new students from outside of North Lawndale, growing the three schools could mean siphoning students from other schools with their own enrollment woes.—
Mila Koumpilova,
ProPublica,
9 Sep. 2025
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The proposal that Republican lawmakers advanced on Thursday splits Kansas City on either side of Troost Avenue, siphoning residents to the west into Missouri’s 4th Congressional District.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Funneling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funneling. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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