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filtered

adjective as in refined

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The sailor, from Southend-on-Sea, was on a ship in Hong Kong when the news of Germany's surrender filtered through.

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They can be treated and filtered without difficulty.

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One by one, the verdicts filtered through: guilty... guilty... guilty... it went on.

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The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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We grab my samples from the fridge, which look much clearer now they have been filtered of any… debris.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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