Thesaurus results for FUNNELLING

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 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 Luke Bronin is supported by The Bench and Majority Democrats – both PACs that are funneling millions of dollars to boost corporate-friendly moderates. —

Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026 That uses the aerodisc wheels, each machined from a single piece of aluminum and designed to minimize range-sapping eddies and wakes by funneling the air like a turbine. —

Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026 Pratt’s critics say that his plan relies on funneling homeless people into a shelter system that doesn’t have the capacity to handle them all. —

Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026 At the center of its message was the role that GAESA, the military conglomerate that controls much of the country's economy, has played in funneling most of the country’s foreign revenue to its hotels and businesses. —

Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026 And with tight refurbishment and decommissioning timelines, along with fire safety and hazardous substance compliance risks, many organizations simply don’t have the time to experiment with circularity techniques and default to funneling recyclable textiles into waste management. —

Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 19 May 2026

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Roughly one year later, after the governor sent a letter to his cabinet secretaries directing them to bring workers back to offices four days a week by July 1, 2026, state workers again rallied to raise funds for another billboard.

— William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026
The screening was followed by a Q&A with the queen of pop herself, alongside directing duo TORSO, otherwise known as David Toro and Solomon Chase.

— Karla Cote, Variety, 6 June 2026