A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
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Higher Treasury yields provide competition, siphoning income-hungry investors away capital that could support prices.
From Barron's ● May 15, 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
The three companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI and MiniMax—prompted Claude more than 16 million times, siphoning information from Anthropic’s system to train and improve their own products, Anthropic said in a blog post Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Hermione pulled it toward her and began siphoning the ink off with her wand.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
