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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
funnel .
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Examples
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Money must be funnelled away from youth football and into the veterans' game for it is from here that the national team of the future will undoubtedly be drawn.
Forget the obsession with youth, football's future is grey and balding | Harry Pearson 2011
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City-based representation was stripped away, the rights of the suburbs to veto progressive transport policy were enforced, and corruption was funnelled through borough councils.
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Britain is to open negotiations at the UN to unfreeze assets running into hundreds of millions of pounds to be funnelled to the Libyan rebel council that was recognised by the UK on Wednesday as the "sole governmental authority" in the country.
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I heard it was all being funnelled through Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona gun shows.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mexico’s Federal Law of Firearms & Explosives 2010
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It started in the 1980s jihad, when the ISI funnelled billions of dollars in CIA-funded weapons to anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan.
US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout 2011
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Tory sources claim Fox then maintained contact with the donors and was responsible for passing them to Werritty, who then funnelled £150,000 to Pargav.
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Despite the march having a permit, and the roads being closed, police funnelled protesters onto the sidewarks and into tightly-penned areas.
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We drank rainwater funnelled by guttering from the house roof into a galvanised iron tank.
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"The stolen money was funnelled off into US bank accounts, where it was reinvested by financiers and enjoyed by the gang leaders."
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The findings come amid calls from opposition parties that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government funnelled stimulus cash into projects linked to its political base.
World Watch 2010
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