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Vance pleaded unfamiliarity, explaining that “sometimes information doesn’t filter up to me.”
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The lighting is gauzy and romantic, like the Instagram filter I use to blur out my eye bags, and Marianne’s hair, long and tangled, cascades behind her, her radiant skin nearly glowing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Messi trusts the people who run them, some of them with him since his early days at Barcelona, and a thorough filter means he only gets offered and chooses what he is comfortable with.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
There is a strong general tendency to filter out the bad and the failed and to focus on the good and the successful.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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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
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
The filters clog at low speeds or cold temperatures; burner units pack up; the sensors break constantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Holly could smell its fetid breath through her filters.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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By the end, Bobby begins to have his own wants, curiosities and desires, Luster said — all filtered through a desperation to help and connect with Dina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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
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
It filtered from above, shadowed between the walls.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
I explained why younger people may actually adapt to AI more effectively than adults because they already inhabit worlds saturated with information, filtering and digital manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Scientists have long thought that worker bees help shield queens from contamination by filtering harmful substances out of the food they provide.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
His skin shifted colors and shades, dappled in the autumn light filtering through the trees, and sometimes he matched the trees around him so well that it looked like he was made of bark.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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