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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Does funnelled mean "slowly and little by little gone to"?
Context:
Scientific publishing, meet cybercrime. Two reputable European science journals have fallen prey to identity theft by criminals who have created counterfeit journal websites. These online doppelgängers have duped hundreds of researchers into paying author fees, with the ill-won gains being funnelled to Armenia.
Scientific publishing, meet cybercrime. Two reputable European science journals have fallen prey to identity theft by criminals who have created counterfeit journal websites. These online doppelgängers have duped hundreds of researchers into paying author fees, with the ill-won gains being funnelled to Armenia.
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This is a funnel: Now imagine money being "funnelled" to Armenia.
- This is a funnel: Now imagine money being "funnelled" to Armenia.
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I'm sorry, I tried to post a link there but it seems it didn't work. A funnel makes it easy to pour liquid into a small hole by providing a larger receptacle which tapers to a smaller hole at the bottom. Taken in the given metaphor, it can mean that large amounts of money were being poured into a small area, i.e. from hundreds of researchers to Armenia. It doesn't necessarily have the meaning "slo
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