silo

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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

Vocational programs were long seen as places to silo academic underperformers into blue-collar work, administrators note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

On June 17, in the middle of Pride Month, the Trump administration’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced that it “will no longer silo LGB+ youth services.”

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

The silo in “Silo” was designed in Season 1 by then-production designer Gavin Bocquet.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

A gentle rain splattered the silo and played tiny pings against the tin roof.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older