silo

Example Sentences

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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

My main issue with Dekoda was that the info existed in a silo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

I really hope they don’t silo her in the música Mexicana categories, because this is a very mature album for her.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 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

If you want to know what eight hundred thousand links look like, picture a forty-foot silo attached to a small barn.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman