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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
Wall Street analysts are pessimistic on Lululemon, through the filter of their usually rose-colored glasses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
What is your internal filter for spotting rising talent and has this changed over the years?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It was Mister Ngwata’s job to protect the chief and filter all of his visitors.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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As the name implies, Glass Half Full filters its work through a hopeful lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
"These images might be altered using photo-editing tools or filters, people standing in particular poses, use of lighting, lots could even be AI-generated," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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
Light filters in weakly through a bank of high windows, illuminating the dust I kicked up when entering.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
And instead of relying on the local soil, they would pot the plants in a material made from coconut fiber, with nutrients and filtered water provided via drip-irrigation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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
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
Sunlight filtered through the branches overhead, throwing spotlights on the path, and there was a certain distinctive, heady spring lightness in the air.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nevertheless, beyond the fuel pump and airline terminal, there are few signs yet that these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, the Journal’s Konrad Putzier writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.
From BBC ● 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
Here, after talking with many experts, filtering many views, it seems there is one rule.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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