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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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But those timings mean he cannot get the cereal straight to a local silo because they are not open then.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

Salesforce’s customer relationship management data only represent an isolated silo of its customers’ total footprint, Goldberg said.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

This tension, he said, was compounded by subsequent U.S. intelligence reports alleging that widespread corruption had rendered some of these missiles nonfunctional—including claims of defective silo lids.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

On June 17, in the middle of Pride Month, the Trump administration’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced that it “will no longer silo LGB+ youth services.”

From Salon Jul. 17, 2025

Hours later she was awakened by thunder shaking the old silo.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Towriss was questioned about "blame culture and people forming silos".

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

To be successful in achieving Bessent’s objectives, the U.S. government will need a comprehensive framework for industrial policies that treats geoeconomics, AI and energy as intertwined domains, not as separate silos.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

The test highlights China’s upgrading submarine capabilities and its broader military modernization, including new missile silos and upgraded bombers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Lefty could see die train tracks now, the huge silos along the river, the giant spice box of coal, coke, and iron ore, and the catwalks stretching overhead like giant spiders.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

When information isn’t siloed, she said, “you don’t need to find a person that was in the room for that conversation to get a readout of it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

The report also highlighted a "siloed way of working" described by some families between the bereavement service, mortuary and funeral directors.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Moskowitz called this view “overly reductive,” arguing that Palantir competes at the operational layer instead of the model layer by organizing siloed enterprise data and embedding AI into workflows.

From MarketWatch Feb. 18, 2026

He argues that healthcare remains maddeningly stuck at Step 2, as practitioners struggle to connect siloed information.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 2026

When the refuse has been siloed for eight months, and 12 per cent. of the animal's weight is used, there will follow a slight daily increase in weight.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 by Various

"One thing we often talk about is not siloing HIV and exceptionalising it," he said.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2024

I’ve noticed this siloing rising in my own life — especially since my family’s run through Seattle public schools ended during the pandemic.

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2023

That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2023

Holistic defense involves more collaboration within defense teams, rather than a strict siloing of roles.

From Slate May 1, 2023

We just kind of ignored it, almost unintentionally siloing things.

From Salon May 27, 2021




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