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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

They live in a silo for two, sharing their pain, icing their scars.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 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

Their dactyls came in for a jolty landing on the rim of the huge silo.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

The microfame experienced by influencers whose days are spent in algorithmic silos is fragile.

From Salon Jul. 7, 2026

Where regional authorities have banned harvesting between 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, some silos are now opening overnight.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

The imposing grain silos at Beirut’s port mostly withstood last year’s massive explosion — but now serve as reminders of negligence and destruction.

From Los Angeles Times May 27, 2026

High-income tax planning here means coordinating healthcare and tax strategy, not optimizing them in silos.

From MarketWatch May 8, 2026

I went back down the steps and walked across their flat dirt yard, past several outbuildings and the huge grain silos, to the first of four long chicken houses.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

These programs are siloed, with no coherent, connecting strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 11, 2026

“Television was reasonably siloed … ABC took a long time deciding because they could see that there was something about it, but in the end they passed.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2026

"She was just going to continue to do what she was doing, and take money from people because people were siloed right, they didn't know what was going on."

From BBC Dec. 5, 2025

The initial decision by engineer Breton to invest in Palantir came as a result of his job as a technical expert at a manufacturing company, where he often dealt with unorganized and siloed data.

From MarketWatch Nov. 25, 2025

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

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

From Slate May 1, 2023

And siloing ourselves in our echo chambers distorts everybody's reality.

From Salon Nov. 24, 2022

Since the early 2000s, Piper has refused to let her work be included in all-Black shows, arguing that such siloing further marginalizes Black artists.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2022

Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2021




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