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Recent Examples of sift
Tang says a new wave of demand for renewable energy would sift out clean-tech winners, after years of hyper-growth drove down prices to levels at which some companies could no longer compete.
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Ishika Mookerjee, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
Spring is officially here, with its blue skies, gentle sunshine, and, as per usual, a bounty of new fragrance launches to sift through.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
But Mubi is not known for episodic distribution, and is particularly not in the business of Emmy pushes; the Television Academy’s purview tends to be limited to projects most visibly on the campaign trail, given the sheer amount of content out there to sift through.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
To find them, scientists developed advanced computational methods that sift through massive datasets, using algorithms to scan millions of faint light sources and test billions of possible motion paths to pinpoint the slow, subtle movements of these distant worlds.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
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Ishika Mookerjee, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2026
Spring is officially here, with its blue skies, gentle sunshine, and, as per usual, a bounty of new fragrance launches to sift through.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
But Mubi is not known for episodic distribution, and is particularly not in the business of Emmy pushes; the Television Academy’s purview tends to be limited to projects most visibly on the campaign trail, given the sheer amount of content out there to sift through.
—David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2026
To find them, scientists developed advanced computational methods that sift through massive datasets, using algorithms to scan millions of faint light sources and test billions of possible motion paths to pinpoint the slow, subtle movements of these distant worlds.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 5 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Such a search through Google’s location data begins with a haystack of hundreds of millions of phones and enables the police to filter out a few that could lead to a suspect.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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Top opaque wood fencing with a top portion that is spaced to allow some light to filter through to keep your privacy fence from making your backyard feel too closed in.—
Kristin Hohenadel,
The Spruce,
24 Apr. 2026
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Boats with people living on board are inspected annually.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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After dispatching her parents from Phoenix to inspect the property, the couple decided to go ahead with the purchase.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Creativity is not just some commodity, trapped in the imagination, that can be tapped and sieved by technology.—
John Semley,
Wired News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Customers who are familiar with her work locally will stand in long lines to get her goods, which often sell out quickly Huynh said Chaung’s taro cakes are made by steaming and sieving the purple Southeast Asian vegetable to make a mix into the dough.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
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The airline also vowed to investigate the matter.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
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Police in Trumbull are investigating a crash that injured a woman and a child in a stroller near the Trumbull Mall on Saturday.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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Iranian forces have laid mines and threatened commercial traffic in the narrow waterway.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The top four-fifths of what will be a 212-foot-tall core stage arrived to KSC’s Turn Basin after making a 900-mile trip laying horizontally on NASA’s Pegasus barge, which picked up the hardware from the Michoud Assembly Building in New Orleans last week.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Apr. 2026
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The film examines the generation who never expected to become senior citizens in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and decades of oppression, who now find themselves trailblazers again as the first openly LGBTQ seniors.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
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Engineers will examine the capsule’s heat shield in more detail along with everything else in preparation for next year’s Artemis III docking demo in orbit around Earth.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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But he was screened on the overtime winner from Lane Hutson.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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While several have since reopened, screening a limited number of films, the Nowruz New Year period, a 13-day holiday from March 20, and typically the most important season for the local box office, was severely impacted.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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