filter
Example Sentences
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We’ve spent years willingly trading privacy for convenience—sharing our locations with friends, using facial recognition to unlock phones, letting AI filters map our faces, and even allowing algorithms to track our sleep.
Through throwback posts, people have been traveling back to the year when dog and flower crown Snapchat filters, Instagram eyebrows, the mannequin challenge and the Chainsmokers were everywhere.
From Los Angeles Times
Their mouths went dry from breathing in the ash-filled air, and they pulled their shirts up and over their heads to help filter out what particles they could.
From Literature
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“It filters it, so humans deal only with the expensive problems.”
From Barron's
The moderate 0.4% uptick in core goods suggests some upward pressure, at least partially tied to tariffs, is beginning to filter through.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.