silo
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They live in a silo for two, sharing their pain, icing their scars.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
During his 2005 confirmation hearings to become chief justice, Roberts described an idyllic heartland childhood lifted from a John Cougar Mellencamp song, all “endless fields” that were “punctuated by an isolated silo or a barn.”
From Slate • May 7, 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
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
Magdalys’s mouth fell open as the humongous beak surged out of the silo, followed by the head.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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Down on the Farm
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