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is siphoning

  • present progressive
    of siphon (3rd person singular).
    siphon
    noun
    a tube or conduit bent into legs of unequal length, for use in drawing a liquid from one container into another on a lower level by placing the shorter leg into the container above and the longer leg into the one below, the liquid being forced up the shorter leg and into the longer one by the pressure of the atmosphere.

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These people may never realize that their work has been grabbed and renamed and is siphoning money from the royalty pool.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

A company is siphoning water from a national forest to sell as bottled water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

“But 58 of them are off-shored onto other agency payrolls. … This bad practice is siphoning money from health care, from environmental protection, juvenile justice and public safety.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2018

We need every penny we can get, and the financial services industry is siphoning them off.

From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2015

The banks have been using cheap official funds to finance the vast "shadow banking" market, which Beijing worries is siphoning credit from industry and creating asset-price bubbles.

From Reuters ● Jun. 21, 2013

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