funneled

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“Once the money was paid out,” Bonta said, “it was funneled through a complex web of over 130 shell companies and hidden across bank accounts, payment apps and cryptocurrency to evade detection.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

“If transit is funneled through a smaller, controlled portion of the strait, you’re not stopping barrels, but you are constraining them — creating friction and likely reducing overall throughput.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Money that flows into private funds usually gets funneled through private wealth managers who can earn fees from the private-credit managers.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Is this land that should be funneled into big, private development projects, in a way that might reproduce the same systems?

From Salon • Mar. 6, 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