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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
It added that the remaining 0.02% margin is not a "real-world misidentification rate", but a boundary where additional human checks filter out potential errors before alerts are sent.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Marcus stands near the machines that filter the water.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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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
Like counts would be hidden by default and cosmetic surgery filters barred.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Singapore inflation figures on Monday will likely show that price growth accelerated in July as the energy shock filters through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
He was thankful for the light filters in their visiplates.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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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
On the first day, worker bees filtered out 95% of the pesticide and transferred it into the honeycomb.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
And the gains filtered through to Asia, with Tokyo climbing two percent thanks to healthy advances for Kioxia, Tokyo Electron and Advantest.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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
Sounds of the marsh filtered in through the cracked-open window: frogs croaking, cicadas singing, and the call of screech owls.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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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
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
According to the researchers, this imbalance could increase pressure inside the filtering structures and potentially contribute to continued kidney damage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Dr Bloomer says "significant sunspot activity" is visible with solar filtering but that you need magnification when viewing with the naked eye.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Dim streaks of light, gray and waning, are filtering in through a nearby window.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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