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[fuhn-l] / ˈfʌn l /


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Processions often include dozens of cars that line up along Forest Lawn Drive and funnel into the parks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

The White House said the global exemption was being used to "evade tariffs and funnel deadly synthetic opioids" to the US.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

“While investors may have thought of Copilot as an AI model in itself, it is already working as a tool that helps funnel queries and tasks to the appropriate model,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

Specifically, the court noted that existing disclosure laws and rules about earmarking donations already act as disincentives for donors hoping to use parties as a means to indirectly funnel money to candidates.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2026

He turned and fled up the corridor, Artemis Fowl’s mocking tones carrying down the metal funnel.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

As Silicon Valley now funnels untold riches into server farms around the country, Rizer said, “I wait for those guys to call me.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

A more moderate Santa Ana wind event typically funnels gusts through canyons, but isn’t powerful enough to climb mountains.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 17, 2025

Palantir began as a defense contractor and has since found other customers selling a platform that funnels data into simple dashboards that use artificial intelligence to aid decision-making.

From Barron's Nov. 4, 2025

A small proportion of methane always passes through the engines unburnt, and is released up the funnels - something known as "methane slip".

From BBC Dec. 30, 2024

Black smoke began to billow out of the red, white, and blue funnels.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Earlier this year, Lewin funneled $3.8 billion to a small arm of the United Nations, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quadrupling the budget of the agency.

From Salon Jun. 23, 2026

Those institutional orders will get funneled through S&P Global’s Equity Bookbuild platform.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

This evolution was thanks to a daring business move from Huang, who funneled the profits Nvidia generated from its gaming business to develop a software layer called Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA.

From MarketWatch May 23, 2026

According to prosecutors, McCluskie, Williamson, and another consultant skimmed $225,000 from one of Becerra’s dormant campaign accounts and funneled it to McCluskie through various entities.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

Kids funneled from their cars to the school, ignoring the men in black suits and red ties who stood at even intervals along the school’s roof.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

Every attack was funnelled out wide before a hopeful cross was delivered and cleared in what was essentially a set-piece defending drill.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

He told BBC Scotland News a lack of a "meaningful queuing structure" saw thousands of fans funnelled through "a series of bottlenecks and pinch points".

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

When City had the ball, United's 4-4-2 funnelled them into wide areas, where they defended with four players.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2026

Millions more were funnelled into art by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, a private jet, and the production of the Hollywood movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" by Najib's stepson.

From Barron's Dec. 25, 2025

Once more I funnelled my hands and answered them.

From A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Newell Boothby

The person alleged in an interview that the sponsorship deal was “1,000% a way to circumvent the salary cap. It was funneling money from the Clippers through Daktronics back to Kawhi.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Individual traders are increasingly funneling money into companies that make the chips, cooling systems and electric power that AI requires.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Anthropic, despite its push to source as much compute as possible, may decide to stop funneling its cash to a rival.

From MarketWatch Jun. 27, 2026

Japan wants to become an asset management superpower, funneling an estimated $7 trillion in mattress money and low-yielding bank accounts into its booming stock market.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

The hills on either side of a cove would direct the water right down the middle, funneling it toward the village.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

He said high pressure over Europe was funnelling hot air north from northern Africa, with the weather system hindering cloud formation.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

The cardinal was also accused of funnelling vast sums of money to his home diocese of Sardinia, some of which reportedly benefited his family.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2023

Helsinki says Moscow is funnelling them to the border, a charge the Kremlin denies.

From Reuters Nov. 24, 2023

The new launch pad appears to feature a rail-mounted assembly structure, a possible mechanism for lifting a rocket into place, lighting towers, and a tunnel for funnelling flames away.

From Reuters May 25, 2023

"Listen and believe!" he cried; and funnelling his hands about his lips, he stooped over the central hole.

From At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes




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