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Recent Examples of sift
We're not designed to be taking in all the world's information and synthesizing it and sifting through it.
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Leah Feiger, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
Lipsticks that better complement skin tones is another area with a daunting range of combinations and options that AI can easily and quickly sift through.
—Michelle Greenwald, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Newsweek sifted through social media to find standout examples.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Republicans are also sifting through their own candidates.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Leah Feiger, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
Lipsticks that better complement skin tones is another area with a daunting range of combinations and options that AI can easily and quickly sift through.
—Michelle Greenwald, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
Newsweek sifted through social media to find standout examples.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
Republicans are also sifting through their own candidates.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Sludge is created by filtering out water from sewage, which is then sold as inexpensive fertilizer.Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Dec. 2024
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The expert’s role is to extract and authenticate the relevant data while filtering out extraneous information.Lars Daniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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When customs officers attempted to inspect his vehicle, Soto-Morando tried to flee, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 7 Dec. 2024
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Jimmy's next-door neighbor, Derek (Ted McGinley), is by his side attempting to help and inspecting the car by banging on it.Dory Jackson, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
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The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
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Experts from Congo's National Rapid Response Team and WHO have been deployed to Panzi last week to take samples and investigate, but the remote location—over 435 miles from Kinshasa—posed logistical challenges.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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The news comes just one day after Robert Wheeler, the assistant director of the FBI’s Critical Incident Response Group, testified to Congress that the bureau was investigating the unexplained drone sightings near sensitive U.S. military sites.Brad Dress, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024
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Cramer examined why each stock saw gains, attributing some of their recent successes to the assumption that President-elect Donald Trump’s new regulators will largely abandon efforts to curb big business’ power.Julie Coleman, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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Set during 18 pivotal months in the early 1970s, the film examines the couple’s time living in Greenwich Village, New York City, when their personal and creative worlds collided.Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024
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It was screened in places like Picturehouse that are squarely pitched to bourgeois film consumption.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
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Stricken from the Cannes lineup back in May on political grounds, the anthology was screened just outside the festival as an act of protest: a fitting premiere for a defiant act of creativity in the face of genocide.Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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