Deborah Eisenberg

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

American Writer

Frank Rich

In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.

American Journalist

John F. Tierney

We cannot continue to ask the brave men and women of our Armed Forces to put their lives on the line to protect our country while we jeopardize their safety by failing to ensure that Defense Department funds are not siphoned off to warlords in Afghanistan.

American Politician

Gary Wolf

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

Marianne Williamson

Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.

American Author

Ellen Burstyn

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around a while sometimes, not always, but sometimes their passion gets siphoned off because they get hurt.

American Actress

Darell Hammond

Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.

American Businessman

Marvin Ammori

Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn't be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant's telephone business.

American Lawyer

Orson Bean

God is being siphoned out of the public arena. People don't even say God bless you when you sneeze anymore. I want to be able to lay a Merry Christmas on someone without its feeling like a political statement.

American Actor

Mona Simpson

Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.

The noun form of 'siphon' relies on gravity to work, like sucking liquid through a straw.

Gravity Dependent

'Siphon' implies a liquid moving from a higher area to a lower one without a pump.

Flow Direction

Starting a siphon may require suction to begin the liquid flow.

Initiating Process

Used as a verb in legal or financial contexts, 'siphon' often suggests illegal activity.

Figurative Use

'Siphon' suggests a gradual, unnoticed process of taking something, unlike a sudden theft.

Subtle Theft

'Siphon' can imply a secretive action, often without immediate consequences.

Undetected Action

When 'siphon' is a verb, it emphasizes the movement of liquid via a connecting means.

Transfer Action

Used practically, 'siphon' involves transferring not just water but any liquid.

Practical Use

 But it's not surprising that because they were actually living through an industrial era with the rise of machines and factories, they said it was industrial labor. So they had a labor theory of value. But again, their focus was reproduction, this real worry of what was happening to the value that was created if it was getting siphoned out.

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 Some of these microbes are beneficial to the plant, suppressing disease and helping it extract nutrients. Others are pathogens, attacking the produce, still alive as it sits in a store display or your refrigerator and siphoning off molecules they can use themselves. The good news is they're almost never bad for you.

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 have completely different kinds of mouths than their adult versions, like caterpillars, which use chewing mouthparts to devour leaves before metamorphosing into butterflies and moths with siphoning mouthparts. Still, mouthpart identification can, for the most part, help scientists—and you —categorize insects.

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 the clam provides the LG with protection in exchange for skimming a little algae off the top for the midnight snack never one to pass up a free meal the giant clams also filter feed on plankton using their siphons to draw water in and out over their gills

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 this is an absolute damaging, a terrible project -- not to speak about the future indebtedness of the country for these hundreds of millions of dollars, and the siphoning off of the scarce resources of the economy from much more important activities

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 octopuses adapt their environments around them to their own liking they clean out a hole under a rock or in a crevice blowing out sand and debris with their siphon and at that point it's not just shelter

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