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[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Inflation can weigh on growth and the OBR has forecast that prices are set to rise at a faster pace as higher energy bills filter through supply chains and to consumers, especially in 2027.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The 41-year-old finalist submitted two takes: one where he didn’t filter his accent, and another he thought would be slightly more legible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Read through such a filter, Big Drum becomes another catalyst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Vance pleaded unfamiliarity, explaining that “sometimes information doesn’t filter up to me.”

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Marcus stands near the machines that filter the water.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth

Humyn Labs filters the thousands of hours of video supplied by those collectors, selecting the most useful content.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The team then evaluated the element wheel, a rotating mechanism equipped with filters and other optical components.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Caltrans is also working with the Los Angeles Unified School District to distribute air filters to schools in the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

To keep our electronics safe, we have a whole-house surge protector, which filters out sudden electrical spikes in the grid that can harm our appliances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The light snapped off, and I blinked away the blindness until I saw three figures, each wearing jeans, a T-shirt, and a mask with two circular filters.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

The general losses in New York filtered through to Asia in the morning but some markets staged a comeback as the day progressed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

I can fix this problem with a filtered water tank.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Text-based learning, even when filtered through a trillion-strong “weightings” map, is only partial knowledge of the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

The time-stop light filtered unnaturally, splitting into thick azure shafts.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The liver plays a central role in filtering the blood and removing unwanted compounds, including substances that may contribute to disease when they accumulate.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Twilight was filtering through Ohio’s leafy Cuyahoga Valley National Park as my husband and I parked our minivan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

By Thursday, she’s ready to start filtering through what she’s collected, and on Fridays and Saturdays, she fills out the applications.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

When asked, Spotify said it had rolled out platform-wide policies, external against impersonation and is working to the improve filtering out of AI-related issues on its platform.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

There were slapping noises filtering through the oniony darkness around him.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander


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