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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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A quarter-point increase would take a few months to filter through to annual percentage rates on existing accounts, according to Matt Schulz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

His goal is to teach students to develop their own creative processes, so they can filter through generative AI content with awareness, discernment and critical thinking, rather than using it as a passive shortcut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

They filter in and out of a robotic milking machine when they want to, rather than being herded in at set times.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

After a while answers began to filter back.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The unexpected finding suggested that the drug was doing more than simply reopening the liver's aging filters.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The problem is that these same filters can block those defending against cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Normally, models like ChatGPT and Claude come with built-in filters that block users from hacking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Humyn Labs filters the thousands of hours of video supplied by those collectors, selecting the most useful content.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“It’s dazzling how the light filters through your complexion,” Catherine assured Princesse.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

The general losses in New York filtered through to Asia in the morning but some markets staged a comeback as the day progressed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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

Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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

Seven steps into the trees, I closed my eyes and filtered out the noise of the birds and breeze, and the city beyond that, until a distant but steady thump came to me.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Hickock’s uneven eyes turned toward a window in the visiting room; his face, puffy, pallid as a funeral lily, gleamed in the weak winter sunshine filtering through the bar-shrouded glass.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote


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