filter
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Meta has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and says it has taken “steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people’s privacy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The NHS advises pregnant women, external to keep caffeine intake below 200mg a day, about two mugs of filter coffee, as studies have linked it to low birth weight and other complications.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Higher prices for a barrel of oil take time to filter down to retail gas prices, but a look at the oil market’s “prompt spread” shows bigger gas bills look likely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Energy indirectly impacts core inflation by affecting the cost of production and transportation, which can filter through into prices of goods and services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Ayesha is the living embodiment of an old-school Hollywood halo filter.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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On Saturday evening, engineers turned their attention to the element wheel, which contains filters, prisms, and other optical components.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Children’s products, water filters and power tools also compete on safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The company said it would set a daily two-hour time limit, hide the number of likes that a post receives, remove autoplay on videos, mute push notifications during school hours, and ban extreme make-up filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Like counts would be hidden by default and cosmetic surgery filters barred.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
“And I’ll do one of those photo filters, so it’s kind of fuzzy? You know, artsy.”
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
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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
“They came through the stereo, speaking loudly into my ear, filtered through the added beauty of a child’s brain taking that all in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Chris Lofts, the site manager, said the waste was first filtered before having water added and being fed into a digester to create methane.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
They rigorously studied his opening, middle game, and endings—and filtered classified analyses of their findings to the top Soviet players.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
I explained why younger people may actually adapt to AI more effectively than adults because they already inhabit worlds saturated with information, filtering and digital manipulation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
He put them on and his bedroom came into clearer focus, lit by a faint, misty orange light that was filtering through the curtains from the street lamp outside the window.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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