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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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He believes that when certain projects require the participation of multiple bureaus, there can be a silo effect that slows progress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

To test this idea, the researchers created a computer model that treats floating ice somewhat like grains moving through a silo.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The only human form with dry feet was that of Daniel Chester French’s Statue of the Republic—Big Mary—which stood hidden under a silo of canvas.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Data that sit in silos rob machine-learning models and AI agents of much of their power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Both Irvine and Carmel Valley are silos from the problems of the outside world, places where everything might seem perfect, even when it isn’t, her brother said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“People get out of their silos and live the way people used to live, which was more intergenerationally,” Steinig said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

The dream is something about silos and a truck and a yellow field, no longer desolate but full of color.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Most recently, regulators allowed VantageScore to be used by government-backed mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who historically have been siloed to using only FICO.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I think within the platforms those departments are very siloed - so what we would love is for those conversations to be much more holistic."

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Rosé will perform at the gala, a fundraiser that seeks to draw the previously more siloed visual art and movie worlds in Los Angeles closer together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bourla has also taken steps that prevent eureka moments from being completely siloed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

A two-year technical program runs the risk of siloing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"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

Having the awards themselves on Paramount+ also testifies to the siloing of audiences.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021

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

From Salon ● May 27, 2021


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