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“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

Each pay period, the money arrived and then vanished almost immediately, siphoned off by a stack of cash-advance apps that automatically withdrew what she owed.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

Citing a government estimate, they warned senators that some $6.6 trillion in deposits could be at risk of being siphoned out of the traditional financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

By some estimates, $152 trillion has been siphoned from poor nations since 1960.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2025

Usually he would sprint to the plane and knock out fifty, sixty push-ups before the exertion slowly siphoned away the anger.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss