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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
Starting on Burlington’s waterfront, this 13-mile route traces the shoreline before funneling riders onto the Colchester Causeway, a narrow, gravel path that stretches across Lake Champlain.
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Erin Gifford, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Vance Joseph builds his game plan around the reigning defensive player of the year, funneling work his way for quarterbacks who would rather eat tinfoil than throw in Surtain’s direction.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
At the very end of the movie, Bigelow captures a variety of government officials funneling into Raven Rock Mountain Complex, otherwise known as Site R, a military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge, Pa.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Why bother funneling all of that through Hollywood’s pomp and corniness into a movie that’s only half good?
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
In the Hulu version of the story, Clarke plays Alex, a middle-aged lawyer stealing money from his clients and funneling it into an opioid addiction and, the series implies, other scurrilous crimes.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
In the summer, lush green pastures and 6-foot cornstalks hug the highway like veins funneling blood through the region.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
But two low-pressure systems, one on either side of India, may have contributed to the event by funneling high levels of water vapor from the Bay of Bengal into the Everest region.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Friend’s terms require waiving the right to jury trials, class actions, and court proceedings, funneling disputes into arbitration in San Francisco.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Erin Gifford, Outside, 30 Oct. 2025
Vance Joseph builds his game plan around the reigning defensive player of the year, funneling work his way for quarterbacks who would rather eat tinfoil than throw in Surtain’s direction.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2025
At the very end of the movie, Bigelow captures a variety of government officials funneling into Raven Rock Mountain Complex, otherwise known as Site R, a military installation with an underground nuclear bunker near Blue Ridge, Pa.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
Why bother funneling all of that through Hollywood’s pomp and corniness into a movie that’s only half good?
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
In the Hulu version of the story, Clarke plays Alex, a middle-aged lawyer stealing money from his clients and funneling it into an opioid addiction and, the series implies, other scurrilous crimes.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
In the summer, lush green pastures and 6-foot cornstalks hug the highway like veins funneling blood through the region.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
But two low-pressure systems, one on either side of India, may have contributed to the event by funneling high levels of water vapor from the Bay of Bengal into the Everest region.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025
Friend’s terms require waiving the right to jury trials, class actions, and court proceedings, funneling disputes into arbitration in San Francisco.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for funneling
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Educational institutions aren't an exception, especially in 2025, when attackers are actively directing their efforts toward them.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The film marks the first directing credit for Robert Wise (later of 1951's The Day the Earth Stood Still and 1965's The Sound of Music glory), since he was uncredited for directing additional sequences in The Magnificent Ambersons two years prior.—
Steven Thrash,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Oct. 2025
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The United States has imposed sanctions on eight North Korean individuals and two entities, accusing them of laundering funds from cybercrime and fraud and channeling them into the North’s nuclear weapons program.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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And yet here was Henley, in the heart of the NFL, taking his grief and channeling it into work.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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China last tested its ICBM force in September 2024—its first since the 1980s—when a DF-31AG missile carrying a dummy warhead was fired toward international waters in the South Pacific, within the region's nuclear-free zone, according to a Newsweek map.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 29 Starlink satellites toward LEO, where were deployed on schedule about an hour into flight.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said the agents were conducting an immigration enforcement operation at the time.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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The emerging damage of deepfakes On September 15th, 2025, Reuters reported that international gangs were conducting fraud operations by using AI to make online romance scams more believable.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Bell then takes his own clear straw and puts it in Peck’s mouth, syphoning off coffee as Peck looks horrified.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Then, in mid-2024, seemingly out of the blue, the 59-year-old producer was accused — first in a civil suit and then in a federal indictment in the Central District Court of California — of siphoning funds from one of his own shows for personal use.—
Steve Belanger,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Funneling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/funneling. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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