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Well, this one is based on a Dahl short story from a collection more aimed at adults, and represents an adaptation more faithful to its original than Fox but still sieved through Anderson’s unique visual style.
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
The hot mixture is then strained through a cheesecloth or sieve allowing the fruit juice to drip into a pan, leaving the seeds, skins, and solid fruit pieces behind.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
Drain shrimp into a colander or sieve and rinse with cold water.
—cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
At promising sites, scuba-diving archaeologists photographed and collected soil samples to sieve on land for small finds.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
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Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
The hot mixture is then strained through a cheesecloth or sieve allowing the fruit juice to drip into a pan, leaving the seeds, skins, and solid fruit pieces behind.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
Drain shrimp into a colander or sieve and rinse with cold water.
—cleveland, 8 Aug. 2023
At promising sites, scuba-diving archaeologists photographed and collected soil samples to sieve on land for small finds.
—Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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Here's how to blend AI insights with your human touch: • Intuition Integration: Use AI insights as a starting point, but always filter them through your intuition and experience.—
Aleesha Webb,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Those earlier rulings found that the age verification systems of the 1990s and 2000s unduly burdened people’s speech and that filtering software could serve the same purpose, but the court also said that if the internet changed at some point in the future, that analysis could change too.—
Adi Robertson,
The Verge,
15 Jan. 2025
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Historians sifted through the belt buckles, pocket watches, small sabers and sheaths, and remains of a Soviet-era plane that had crashed in Poland in the 1970s, according to the post.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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This unavoidable task eats into a company’s capacity to scale, with the potential for delays caused by everything from document access to sifting through entire knowledge bases to pinpoint the correct document.—
Ravikiran Dharmavaram,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The Capital One Arena, a downtown D.C. stadium with a capacity of 20,000, will screen the swearing-in live and host the presidential parade, Trump said.—
Andrew Solender,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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In 2022, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery was only screened for one week before being removed.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 Jan. 2025
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The quality of mercy is tough to measure, but the quantity of mercy has not been strained in Washington recently.—
Belinda Luscombe,
TIME,
23 Jan. 2025
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Flagsticks leaned like willows, straining to hold their ground.—
Bryce Miller,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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