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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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He says this creates a "perfect storm" because AI is then more likely to be used to filter through a large volume of applications.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Read through such a filter, Big Drum becomes another catalyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Vance pleaded unfamiliarity, explaining that “sometimes information doesn’t filter up to me.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

He took questions on Snapchat and replied with no filter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I didn’t even take any in, just let it filter against me and felt how hot it was.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

Caltrans is also working with the Los Angeles Unified School District to distribute air filters to schools in the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Once the club's data departments have the brief, filters that grade a player's overall ability are applied to whittle down the 650,000-man database to 20-50 names.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

He walked down to Waterworks Park, amazed that the Americans had built such a palace to house plumbing filters and intake valves.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

I can fix this problem with a filtered water tank.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

From there, medbeds filtered out to the rest of the secret-space-program community and to other alternative subcultures, including the New Age world.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Flores, whose only public comments had for months been filtered through his legal team, agreed to speak with The Times, detailing the toll that the prior year and a half had taken on him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Cross polarized light microscopy uses specially filtered light to reveal structures that may be difficult to see with ordinary microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

He was joking, but his words tugged at my heart as thoughts from last night filtered into my brain.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Nevertheless, beyond the fuel pump and airline terminal, there are few signs yet that these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, the Journal’s Konrad Putzier writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Looking up I could see faint moonlight filtering in through drain grates far overhead.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss


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