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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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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

The charity appealed, which was initially denied - but after several weeks the post "suddenly reappeared" behind a sensitivity filter.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

It could be a while before the latest rounds of rate-hike requests filter into utility bills, said Charles Hua, founder and executive director of PowerLines.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Oh, yes, Harry’s right—we’re altogether too fussy now. We strain it when we gather and strain it when it goes into the evaporator, and then we filter it again when it comes off the fire.”

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

As the name implies, Glass Half Full filters its work through a hopeful lens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The team then evaluated the element wheel, a rotating mechanism equipped with filters and other optical components.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

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

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 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

I'd been asleep long enough that my filters were useless.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

Chris Lofts, the site manager, said the waste was first filtered before having water added and being fed into a digester to create methane.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

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

Jim and Ophelia had invented some of the lexicon, and the expressions had filtered into the PIH culture.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

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

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

The dismal truth was filtering through to everybody.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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