funnel
noun
a cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
funneled
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past participleof funnel.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof funnel.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
funnelnouna cone-shaped utensil with a tube at the apex for conducting liquid or other substance through a small opening, as into a bottle, jug, or the like.
Example Sentences
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The scale of that spending, funneled into data centers and chip purchases, has unsettled some investors who worry the AI payoff hasn’t yet materialized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In 2003, McLeod’s patrons funneled more than $100,000 through The Fellowship to compensate him.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026
Those institutional orders will get funneled through S&P Global’s Equity Bookbuild platform.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
This evolution was thanks to a daring business move from Huang, who funneled the profits Nvidia generated from its gaming business to develop a software layer called Compute Unified Device Architecture, or CUDA.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
Not when we were afraid, but when we were wide awake and lucid, my mother funneled China into our ears: Kwang- tung Province, New Society Village, the river Kwoo, which runs past the village.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
