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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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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

The 41-year-old finalist submitted two takes: one where he didn’t filter his accent, and another he thought would be slightly more legible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

With trumpets blowing in the courtyard, the dignitaries of Church and State began to filter up the stairs.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Barnacles, minerals and microorganisms built up on submerged surfaces, clogging intake filters and coating the heat exchangers that cool the servers, Barnard says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion and make changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including hiding likes and reactions and blocking teens from using extreme makeup filters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

The air filters cycle on, making a low hum beneath the sound of the fan.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

The artists’ perspective, filtered through a Gen Z lens, struck a multigenerational nerve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

When asked, Spotify said it had rolled out platform-wide policies, external against impersonation and is working to the improve filtering out of AI-related issues on its platform.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

At the same time, beyond the gas pump and airline terminal, there are few signs these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, raising prices for products such as food and clothing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The moonlight filtering in lit up silver puddles and sprays of cobweb.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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