filter
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Many of Hegseth’s reforms are new and must filter through an agency that employs millions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
In cities across the Midwest and Northeast, people wore masks outdoors to filter out the dangerous air.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We've essentially built a scientific spam filter," Professor Barnett said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
The “Little House” devotees who prefer to write off the books’ dips into racism by accepting them as a reflection of a time in America may also have been influenced by the TV show’s filter.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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The site and app are entirely free, but two paid tiers offer more profile customization, filters and features, all with zero third-party ads.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
They represent different wavelengths of light collected through Hubble's filters and processed using standard scientific techniques.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Since then, the European Union has lowered the acceptable concentration of certain chemical filters, including homosalate and oxybenzone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
"If spare parts, filters and new generators are not allowed in, we are heading towards a catastrophe," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
They are made from the wads of feltlike fuzz that accumulate on drier filters and can be peeled off in sheets.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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The performance will touch on the comedian’s experience moving to Ireland, the challenges of cultural differences and her relationship with her nonbinary child, all filtered through her characteristic humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
She shakes out our hair on the euphoric Good For The Soul, and throws shapes to the filtered grooves of Love Sensation, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
At that moment Offenbach’s “Les oiseaux dans la charmille” filtered down from the stage.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Both Rubis and ATF Fuels said recent drops in wholesale costs were now filtering through to local forecourts in Guernsey and Jersey.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Founded long before the generative AI boom created the risk of calls using "deepfake" voices resembling real friends or family, the company is now working on filtering potentially fraudulent conversations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Humans can often sustain focus on a specific goal while filtering out competing information.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The Ubiquity of Filtering and Coincidence Broadly understood, the study of filtering is nothing less than the study of psychology.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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