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funnel
noun
A utensil of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids etc. into a close vessel; a tunnel.
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"funnel" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English.
You can use the word to refer to a tool for collecting and guiding liquid or powder through a narrow tube, or for a wider conical tube-shaped object such as a kitchen funnel. You can also use the word figuratively to refer to a process of directing something into a narrow or restrictive channel. For example, "The marketing team funneled their resources into developing a new online campaign."
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The number of people who venture to Llangennith is negligible compared to most of Devon or Cornwall, but the road is like a funnel and it doesn't take much to get jammed.
The Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos is to appear before the New South Wales corruption watchdog on Thursday to give evidence about his role at an Obeid-linked company allegedly used to funnel taxpayers' money to the Liberal party.
The Abbot Point development has been green-lit to funnel vast amounts of coal out of Australia.
In a stroke of inspired creativity, Occupy activists repurposed Amazon's existing e-commerce and fulfillment infrastructure, in the form of a wedding registry, to funnel donated goods to the distribution centre they had set up in a Brooklyn church.
Chris Stephen and Nancy Porsia have reported on the detentions and beatings faced by the estimated 3 million migrants in Libya where, they write, "the collapse of government authority has turned [it] into a gigantic funnel to Europe".
The routes to supposed safety have forked and forked again: you can try your luck from Turkey into Greece and up into the Balkans, around to northern Egypt or, as the vast majority do, through the lawless funnel that Libya has become.
The inquiry has heard that NSW Liberal figures used Eightbyfive to secretly funnel more than $400,000 in donations to prospective MPs and associates in exchange for favours.
The western Balkans is a notorious smuggling funnel for those desperate to get into an EU country, principally Hungary to the north or Bulgaria to the south.
"But much of Ukip's support is anger at the political establishment, something the Lib Dems used to funnel.
But when we look at the bigger picture number it shows that much of the cuts are done to funnel money elsewhere rather than hurry back to surplus.
Snowden's files revealed the mouth of the intelligence funnel has been stretched wide open over the last decade.
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