funneling

variants also funnelling
present participle of funnel
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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Verb
  • Shouldn’t, Mean To my hearing and reading, Peterson disagrees with directing or legislating equality of outcomes.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Nicholas Hoult has signed on to star in the untitled bank heist thriller that David Leitch is directing for Amazon MGM Studios and Imagine Entertainment.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
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  • The unusually large size of this bulge compared with the galaxy’s disk is possibly thanks to UGC 10043 siphoning material from a nearby dwarf galaxy.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Eventually, the thieves began siphoning syrup directly from the barrels in the reserve without refilling them.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Funneling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funneling. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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