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As a means of crowd control, the National Park Service has attempted to funnel people out of the valley, where the majority of tourists spend their time and into its less frequented locations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

He said that investors want to see evidence that Adobe’s “freemium” funnel will translate to durable paid-subscriber growth, and not weaken the pricing power for its premium offerings.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 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

From a societal standpoint, the purpose of a stock market is to funnel money from millions of savers into giant projects—such as, in the 19th century, railroads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

At the boardwalk amusement park, Kevin and I rode a few rides and ate funnel cake, but the upcoming court date hung over my head like a dark cloud.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

In Canada, home to 31 private technology companies each valued at more than $1 billion, the federal government funnels money into leading-edge research and welcomes skilled immigrants to conduct it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

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

“There’s an awful lot of financial logic to this,” said Lambert, 37, whose club funnels much of that profit to migrant-aid groups, charities for the homeless or others providing medical assistant to Palestine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2025

It later emerged the ship was far from finished - windows were painted on, temporary funnels were made of plywood and, more importantly, huge amounts of engineering and electrical work were still required inside.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

Iran funneled arms to many of the groups, which later took on a role in fighting Islamic State fighters who swept into Iraq from Syria in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

The tide and the wind were pushing in hard now, and the current funneled through the mouth of the harbor; the green boughs and branches of the fallen trees lay scattered across the clean snow.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

They reported slow "airport style" security checks before the capacity crowd was funnelled through three gates.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

OpenAI lawyers have suggested that she funnelled information about OpenAI to Musk after he in 2018 left the AI company, which he co-founded and made early donations to.

From BBC ● May 6, 2026

Rijkenberg told parliament the money received from the United States was funnelled into the account of Eswatini's disaster agency, NDMA.

From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025

Money was funnelled into the country through trade union connections.

From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott

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

Before he won the presidency, Mr. Lee was on trial for allegedly funneling $8 million in secret funds to the North.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

Pratt’s critics say that his plan relies on funneling homeless people into a shelter system that doesn’t have the capacity to handle them all.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026

On occasion, thick clouds would start funneling downward, reaching for the ground.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

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

In funnelling the money into the industry, the French government aims to stop "prices collapsing... so that wine-makers can find sources of revenue again", Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2023

Our ventilating system utilises the normal fire draught, but also by suitable holes in the funnelling causes the same draught to extract foul air at higher levels.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon