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silo

[sahy-loh] / ˈsaɪ loʊ /




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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

Some employees said an organizational silo between Suleyman’s consumer-focused team and teams working on enterprise versions has made it challenging to achieve a unified vision.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 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

The way everyone looked up so surprised, it was as if they were saying, “How on earth did she live this long without knowing what a silo is?”

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz

But more often, those fighting trafficking live in their own silos, doing their own work, and often failing or refusing to share even scant details with other jurisdictions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

An existing desalination plant with large white silos on Vulcano, one of the archipelago's eight islands, has made it autonomous for drinking water.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 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

Palantir’s solutions unite data silos within organizations to create a centralized platform for AI agents.

From MarketWatch Jun. 25, 2026

There’s a majestic row of grain silos, too.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Moskowitz called this view “overly reductive,” arguing that Palantir competes at the operational layer instead of the model layer by organizing siloed enterprise data and embedding AI into workflows.

From MarketWatch Feb. 18, 2026

He argues that healthcare remains maddeningly stuck at Step 2, as practitioners struggle to connect siloed information.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 8, 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

That word, “Silo,” refers both to the enormous subterranean city that shelters 10,000 people and to the practice of information siloing: filtering data through narrow, manipulative networks.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2023

Holistic defense involves more collaboration within defense teams, rather than a strict siloing of roles.

From Slate May 1, 2023

But it can be more advantageous than siloing ourselves off from others.

From Salon Jan. 30, 2023

Parents are siloing themselves with like-minded friends, which reinforces their thinking.

From Seattle Times Oct. 30, 2021




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