filtered

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Ask it sensitive questions and you’ll get carefully filtered answers with just enough truth to be plausible but still misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

But in “The Other Bennet Sister,” premiering May 6 on BritBox with three episodes, everything is filtered through Mary.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Food-inspired fashion has filtered down from luxury designers like Dolce & Gabbana which embraced it late last decade, says Lorynn Divita, an associate professor of apparel design and merchandising at Baylor University in Texas.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

I see flashes of modern neo-noirs like Paul Schrader’s “The Canyons,” and the cold but still realistic otherworldliness in David Cronenberg’s “Dead Ringers” and “The Shrouds,” filtered through a silly, gay “Single White Female’ lens.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026

Now he got it: The credit default swaps, filtered through the CDOs, were being used to replicate bonds backed by actual home loans.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis