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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

It added that the remaining 0.02% margin is not a "real-world misidentification rate", but a boundary where additional human checks filter out potential errors before alerts are sent.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

“However, these temporary tailwinds are likely to fade… Growth is expected to moderate in the coming months as the impact of higher prices and borrowing costs filter through to households and businesses,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Never look at the Sun through binoculars, a telescope, or a camera unless a solar filter designed for the front of the instrument is securely attached.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

One of us would go off to fetch and filter water while the other prepared a sludge of steamy noodles.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Depending on the situation, it filters out some information while giving greater attention to signals that are more relevant.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The couple provided their guests with special glasses and filters bought months in advance so they could view the partial eclipse over Suffolk.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Amid ongoing concerns, district officials have assured parents schools are safe, campuses have been sanitized and high-grade air filters installed.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Citing the reduced risk, Anthropic said its automated safety filters will intervene roughly 85 percent less often on Opus 5 than on Fable 5, the Mythos-class model it released last month.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

I took off my face mask and dunked it, along with the purple filters.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

The words are filtered through each reader’s own individuality.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

The new concoction, meant to promote “restoration,” is a collaboration with Jolie — a New York-based beauty wellness company that sells filtered showerheads.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

The Panthers broke ranks and filtered out through the crowd.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

In DKD, the kidneys are already dealing with elevated pressure and hyperfiltration, a condition in which their filtering structures are placed under excessive strain.

From Science Daily Aug. 18, 2026

Researchers found last year that filtering biothreat-related text from training data makes models ignorant about the topic, but they caution it isn’t a silver bullet.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

The Rightmove data suggests that fewer tenants are proactively filtering for pet-friendly properties when searching for a home.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

The rumors that had been filtering down the backstretch, whispered in confidence between dockers and horsemen, suddenly became noisy public accusations: Something is wrong with Seabiscuit.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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