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Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
What to do if your filter needs calibration?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
An unusually large amount of smoke in the air from nearby forest fires acted like an additional atmospheric filter.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
I’m supposed to replace the filter and put new coffee and water in, but for talking about Khalil Mr. Lewis gets coffee made from day-old grounds.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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She and her sister both approve of hiding the numbers of likes and restricting filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The platform will be required to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under the age of 16, strengthen parental supervision systems, and implement stricter content filters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Singapore inflation figures on Monday will likely show that price growth accelerated in July as the energy shock filters through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
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 crowding trees withstand the drizzle as an artificial sunlight filters through the thick leaves.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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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
As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
On the first day, worker bees filtered out 95% of the pesticide and transferred it into the honeycomb.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The words filtered in before Conor was even properly awake.
From "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness
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Worker bees normally serve as a colony's first line of defense against contamination, filtering harmful substances before they can spread through the hive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
This prominence emitted strongly in light associated with hydrogen, allowing its original bright pink color to survive despite the atmospheric filtering.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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
What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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