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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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To create the sequence, Nolan’s team built a sort of silo on the beach, rigging it with minuscule LED lights to mimic sunlight leaking through chinks in the horse’s hull.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 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

Humor is derived from individual perception, and it’s hard to see much of the world stuck in the blinding blue light of a digital silo.

From Salon Sep. 5, 2025

Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Towriss was questioned about "blame culture and people forming silos".

From BBC Aug. 18, 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

And the more that people exist in algorithmic silos, the more likely they are to be convinced that they have a claim on things they don’t.

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

It didn't look much like a factory—no towering steel silos or smokestacks billowing carbon monoxide, just a few buildings that vaguely reminded him of airplane hangars.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

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

It is often said that film directors are siloed off from one another, that they don’t get to watch how others work.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2025

There's an argument that those songs should be siloed into a separate chart – in the same way that compilations are excluded from the album countdown.

From BBC Dec. 6, 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

Rather than siloing, say, the Navy’s information from the Army’s, their intelligence will be hooked into one big brain to allow coordination and protect assets.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2023

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

Intentionally seeking out and establishing relationships with friends who eschew romantic siloing is possible and will go a long way toward making your future seem less like an open question.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2020




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