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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
syphon .
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Examples
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We should have the option of a plan that applies virtually all revenues to our healthcare, rather than having some of it syphoned off for other purposes.
House Democrat: Health care bill in doubt without public plan 2009
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Maybe you should be mad at the lying cheat John Edwards who would have syphoned off some of your votes.
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I remember John Rafferty, the unctuous head of the Glasgow based Volunteer Centre who helped Brown smear his way up the greasy pole in the 1980's on the backs of cash syphoned off from projects designed to help the young unemployed.
Britain's Worst Prime Minister Alan Smart 2009
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We have been mealy mouthed and looked the other way while Mubarak syphoned $70 billion from his people in 30 short years.
The west should cheer, not fear, this cry for freedom in Egypt | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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I remember John Rafferty, the unctuous head of the Glasgow based Volunteer Centre who helped Brown smear his way up the greasy pole in the 1980's on the backs of cash syphoned off from projects designed to help the young unemployed.
Archive 2009-04-01 Alan Smart 2009
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Funds have to be syphoned off to Scotland - where my friend would have had her op 'by now.
We`ve Come For Your Organs Newmania 2008
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Finding that I had syphoned all the unleaded petrol out of its tank for either a Molotov Cocktail or, perhaps more likely, to ensure that the car didn't splutter embarrassingly to a halt twenty yards from my door, I then spotted this little patch of daisies amongst the long blades of grass.
Spring is Sprung Peter Ashley 2008
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He accompanied convoys of aid to the Tamil areas, and managed to prevent truck-loads of essential supplied being syphoned off by the authorities in non-Tamil areas.
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She syphoned Marshall's excellent idea because she has no excellent ideas of her own.
Allison Kilkenny: What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us 2009
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The so called indepedent Charity Commission were meant to investigate the (terrorist) funding via Interpal, reaching Hamas - the Panorama programme highlighted the funds were being syphoned off to Hamas?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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