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Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
By pinning structural failures of U.S. health infrastructure onto a single doctor, both supporters and critics can selectively filter for what they already believe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Only stories of love pass through our post-mortal filter, yet even then, we are baffled by the intensity of longing and loss that threatens those mortal tales of love.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Teens wouldn’t be able to use extreme makeup filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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
The platform will be required to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under the age of 16, strengthen parental supervision systems, and implement stricter content filters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Singapore inflation figures on Monday will likely show that price growth accelerated in July as the energy shock filters through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
It's dark, though, and only a small bit of light filters through the window, so I could be wrong.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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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
Flores, whose only public comments had for months been filtered through his legal team, agreed to speak with The Times, detailing the toll that the prior year and a half had taken on him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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
The words are filtered through each reader’s own individuality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The hair on his arms stood on end as moonlight filtered through one of the temple’s massive bay windows and cast silvery light on one side of the Kuhani’s face.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Worker bees normally serve as a colony's first line of defense against contamination, filtering harmful substances before they can spread through the hive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Researchers found last year that filtering biothreat-related text from training data makes models ignorant about the topic, but they caution it isn’t a silver bullet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Rightmove data suggests that fewer tenants are proactively filtering for pet-friendly properties when searching for a home.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Her father stands by a window, intently watching his arm as he holds it out in front of him, the sunlight filtering in through the frosted glass and falling over his sleeve.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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