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1
as in drained
to remove (liquid) gradually or completely
I let the stranded motorist siphon some of my gas so he could be on his way
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as in funneled
to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway
investigators discovered that the so-called charitable organization was siphoning funds for personal use
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Recent Examples of siphoned
Thousands of Brazilian reals, the national currency, were soon siphoned from his bank account.
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Harry Booth,
Time,
26 June 2026
More than 100 Labour members of Parliament called for Starmer to step down after Reform UK, a relatively new anti-immigration and hard-right party, won the largest number of local seats and the rising Green Party siphoned voters from the left.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
According to Stanford’s White, although Union Pacific had a huge amount of capital, much of it was siphoned off to the Credit Mobilier, the construction company working on the project, which was owned by insiders at the time.
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Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
And the rise of Restore Britain, another hard-right party amplified by Elon Musk which advocates for the large-scale deportation of migrants, has siphoned off some support for Reform too.
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Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
The governor has directed $11 billion in surpluses toward this effort since 2020, stopping the huge expansion of pension costs that siphoned dollars away from other programs.
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Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2026
The trustee alleged that Calce and other insiders had improperly siphoned away cash and other assets.
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Joshua Kaplan,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
Once considered competitive territory, the district was transformed into safe Republican ground after Democratic mapmakers packed it with conservative voters siphoned from neighboring GOP seats.
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Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
3 June 2026
Afterward, the water is discharged into the Sacramento River through an 800-foot-long pipe, with a portion siphoned off for crop irrigation.
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Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Harry Booth,
Time,
26 June 2026
More than 100 Labour members of Parliament called for Starmer to step down after Reform UK, a relatively new anti-immigration and hard-right party, won the largest number of local seats and the rising Green Party siphoned voters from the left.
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ABC News,
23 June 2026
According to Stanford’s White, although Union Pacific had a huge amount of capital, much of it was siphoned off to the Credit Mobilier, the construction company working on the project, which was owned by insiders at the time.
—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
And the rise of Restore Britain, another hard-right party amplified by Elon Musk which advocates for the large-scale deportation of migrants, has siphoned off some support for Reform too.
—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
The governor has directed $11 billion in surpluses toward this effort since 2020, stopping the huge expansion of pension costs that siphoned dollars away from other programs.
—
Keith M. Phaneuf,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2026
The trustee alleged that Calce and other insiders had improperly siphoned away cash and other assets.
—
Joshua Kaplan,
ProPublica,
9 June 2026
Once considered competitive territory, the district was transformed into safe Republican ground after Democratic mapmakers packed it with conservative voters siphoned from neighboring GOP seats.
—
Barnini Chakraborty,
The Washington Examiner,
3 June 2026
Afterward, the water is discharged into the Sacramento River through an 800-foot-long pipe, with a portion siphoned off for crop irrigation.
—
Emma Hall,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for siphoned
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School district versus county While homeowners are suing for direct relief on their 2023 tax payments in the form of refunds, Jackson County school districts have also taken to the courts to prevent their budgets from being drained in the process.
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The 2,000-foot-long basin was drained and a tinted.
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The money was diverted to the governor’s wife’s charity, the Hope Florida Foundation, which funneled it to two political committees.
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Frank Carone agreed to accept bribes from Zhu and Chen, funneled through Anthony Carone, in exchange for steering a multimillion-dollar contract to house migrants at their Long Island City hotel, the indictment alleges.
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Panthers coach Paul Maurice pumped the brakes on that — at least to start.
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Known as Vision 2030, profits from gas and oil have been pumped into the development of a leisure infrastructure to tempt tourists and boost the level of business to local companies.
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Asked about his future, Migné directed questions to the Haitian Football Federation.
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Moore and Jon Lucas co-wrote The Hangover, and the pair wrote and directed Bad Moms and its sequel A Bad Moms Christmas.
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Talent development will be channeled through the Jakarta Film Lab initiative, offering training, mentorship and certification programs for writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, editors and crew.
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Bennett, who turned 2 on May 8, channeled his father during the Masters Tournament’s Par 3 Contest in April, toting a toy golf club on the course while little brother Remy, born March 27, nestled up against Meredith, 30.
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Many have carried the Indian flag and brought copies of the constitution to the demonstration.
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The only real scoring chances arrived in the dying moments of a game that carried macabre tendencies, long after the match had devolved into a turf war.
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No homes had been lost, and Utah Fire Info, a multiagency operation, said in a post on X that firefighters conducted a successful back-burn operation to protect the town.
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Defense attorney Michael Burt had argued a video deposition prosecutors conducted with a key witness is hearsay evidence and should not be admissible, as the witness could not be subject to cross-examination.
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This returning fave is an Original Glazed doughnut, dipped in white icing and topped off with blue sprinkles and white stars, piped with red icing stripes.
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From 1840, the Tamina waters were piped into the town of Bad Ragaz, and Tamina Therme bathhouse opened there in 1872.
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