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

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

But if you go to the right, you can see the Encino Reservoir and eventually you get to a decommissioned Nike missile silo.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2025

Mr. Van Sandtford steps out on the porch to join me, and his eyes sweep over his farm as he checks bam, silo, and fields in the manner of a farmer.

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