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siphon

[sahy-fuhn] / ˈsaɪ fən /
NOUN
pipe
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He certainly did not have the personality to siphon any fans from a LeBron James-led Lakers team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Analysts say Winter's rising star could siphon votes from Smotrich's base, potentially preventing his Religious Zionism party from clearing the electoral threshold of 3.25 percent unless it joins a list with another party.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

A digital bill of rights would be a major part of that by boosting privacy and protecting the level of data that corporations can siphon up about ordinary people.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Yet this immense spending has started to siphon off most of these companies’ free cash flow, spooking investors who are worried about the return on investment.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Hatsue bent forward and slipped a forefinger inside the siphon.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

It is part of a growing chorus of online media companies expressing frustration with the tech giant as AI changes the way people ask questions, siphons off search traffic and upends publishers’ revenue models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

But it is different from the previously favoured scenario, in which a white dwarf siphons material from a companion.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2023

Instead, it siphons the Colorado’s flow into the All-American Canal, delivering five times as much water to Imperial as Los Angeles uses in a year — and 10 times as much as Nevada.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2023

The health authority acknowledged there could be potential equity concerns if One Medical siphons off commercially insured patients with higher payment rates from clinics that serve patients covered by Medicaid and Medicare.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

The parasite clamps onto the intestines and siphons nutrients from the body.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

A probe into donations allegedly siphoned off at India's grand Ram temple has renewed scrutiny of how religious sites manage vast amounts of cash and gold entrusted to them by devotees.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

“It kind of siphoned all of that pent-up, closeted stuff that you hold back, that you couldn’t freely express,” she said.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

Twenty years later, all of the money and power in publishing has been siphoned to the very, very rich.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Instead, he siphoned the money into a personal slush fund, leased a Manhattan apartment, renovated a lakefront property and spent $3,000 on a birthday dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant, according to the indictment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Both laboratories siphoned off Langley employees, including computers, for their startup staffs.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It condemned illegal tapping and siphoning, warning that such activities put lives, the environment and the economy at risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The videos "crowd-out" posts from actual entrepreneurs with Down syndrome, potentially siphoning away business, Rowe said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

To advocates and education unions, such maneuvers amounted to improper or possibly illegal siphoning — and that’s one detail they were watching for Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

Arbitration has also become a massive phenomenon, siphoning countless cases off from the courts into a shadowy, opaque system that nobody can ever truly fully observe.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

In fact, I haven’t seen him since our first siphoning attempts.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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