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also syphon
1
as in to pump
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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2
as in to funnel
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 siphon
March 4th One recipient of that capital is Crusoe which could be siphoning some revenue from AWS and other hyperscalers.
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Peter Cohan, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Skyrocketing costs for housing, rent and healthcare are siphoning away savings more quickly than in previous generations — in fact, almost half of US families have no retirement account savings.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
As long as there are dollars in someone’s bank account, there are other people devising ways to siphon those dollars and claim them as their own.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
Rhetoric surrounding an audit of aid for Kyiv has amplified unproved accusations that Ukrainian officials have siphoned off cash intended for the war effort, and could undermine other requests for assistance.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Peter Cohan, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Skyrocketing costs for housing, rent and healthcare are siphoning away savings more quickly than in previous generations — in fact, almost half of US families have no retirement account savings.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 24 Mar. 2025
As long as there are dollars in someone’s bank account, there are other people devising ways to siphon those dollars and claim them as their own.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
Rhetoric surrounding an audit of aid for Kyiv has amplified unproved accusations that Ukrainian officials have siphoned off cash intended for the war effort, and could undermine other requests for assistance.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for siphon
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Katie Maloney is not pumped about the Vanderpump Rules reboot.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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California has the largest fleet of electric school buses in the country after pumping more than $1.3 billion into such efforts and funding more than 2,300 of the buses.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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Parker, Torres and Knight then funneled into the room, ordering aRoche to stand down.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
29 Apr. 2025
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Over six years, the scheme generated at least $88 million, money that was ultimately funneled to the North Korean regime to fund its weapons programs.—
Alonzo Martinez,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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Today's Amazon deals are built to level up your setup without draining your wallet.—
Shubham Yewale,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2025
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The arena goes icily silent, punctuated by some half-hearted boos as the clock drains down.—
Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Mills argued the clause blocks the lawsuit because the Federal Tort Claims Act directs federal judges to interpret the merits of this type of case based on state law.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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The executive order will direct the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security to identify jurisdictions where local enforcement has declined to cooperate with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown, according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.—
Joel Rose,
NPR,
28 Apr. 2025
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Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways.—
Jeremy Orr,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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The facility’s bar dish-washing machine was not piping sanitizing chemicals into the wash basin because the machine’s chemical lines were set up improperly.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Variations of this problem show up in various forms across computer science, especially in error coding and cryptography—fields focused on securely and accurately encoding data as it’s transmitted.—
Stephen Ornes,
Wired News,
27 Apr. 2025
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Clop exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Cleo’s enterprise file transfer software, technology used by many large organizations to securely transmit sensitive business data.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Siphon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siphon. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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