filter
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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
Surgeons attached the pig kidney to the blood vessels inside Tim Andrews' body so the organ could filter the blood.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Wastewater treatment plants in the U.S. and Mexico filter some of the contaminants, but those facilities have failed over the past decade and released hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
After a while answers began to filter back.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
In practical terms, the test confirmed that ground teams can remotely control the instrument's various systems, including movable mechanisms that position its masks, color filters, lenses, and prisms.
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
She and her sister both approve of hiding the numbers of likes and restricting filters.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Light filters in weakly through a bank of high windows, illuminating the dust I kicked up when entering.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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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
Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The light filtered through, a shaded green, and the sound of water wended its way imperceptibly into our consciousness.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the same time, beyond the gas pump and airline terminal, there are few signs these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, raising prices for products such as food and clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
In DKD, the kidneys are already dealing with elevated pressure and hyperfiltration, a condition in which their filtering structures are placed under excessive strain.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
I stuck around and claimed I wanted to get my head in the space, claimed I had some preseason ritual, which they all bought, filtering out one by one.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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