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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
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
“However, these temporary tailwinds are likely to fade… Growth is expected to moderate in the coming months as the impact of higher prices and borrowing costs filter through to households and businesses,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
With me, it’s regular checkups, new filter every fifteen hundred miles, and new oil every three thousand.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Roman's Coronagraphic Instrument will use masks, prisms, detectors, filters, and self-flexing mirrors to demonstrate technologies capable of suppressing starlight.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Teens wouldn’t be able to use extreme makeup filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
"People will find new ways to have fake filters, and correct certain parts of their videos or pictures," she says.
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
She had walked to another county once, hoping to trade some fabric she had sewn into filters for straining liquid in exchange for corn we could eat.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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On the first day, worker bees filtered out 95% of the pesticide and transferred it into the honeycomb.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
That optimism filtered through to Asia, where Seoul -- which has been at the forefront of extreme volatility in the tech sector over the past month -- climbed more than four percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
ECB policymakers are watching closely for signs that higher energy costs have filtered through to other parts of the economy, which would reinforce their case for keeping interest rates higher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The new concoction, meant to promote “restoration,” is a collaboration with Jolie — a New York-based beauty wellness company that sells filtered showerheads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
She grabbed the brass candlestick beside her bed, ready to leap off the mattress, but lowered it as Philippa’s humming filtered through the doors to her bedroom.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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One way employees have used their AI agents is to manage their inbox: summarizing emails, filtering out spam messages and automatically drafting responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
It lived in the ocean almost 600 million years ago and spent much of its life in one place, filtering plankton from the surrounding seawater for food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
The door was open, the passage dark save for the glimmer of the torch and the red glare from outside filtering through the window-slit.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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