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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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His goal is to teach students to develop their own creative processes, so they can filter through generative AI content with awareness, discernment and critical thinking, rather than using it as a passive shortcut.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

Get good at spotting fakes—hone your own “phony” filter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Oh, yes, Harry’s right—we’re altogether too fussy now. We strain it when we gather and strain it when it goes into the evaporator, and then we filter it again when it comes off the fire.”

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

The unexpected finding suggested that the drug was doing more than simply reopening the liver's aging filters.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Most people are looking for freeze-dried food and wind-up radios from us, but also a lot of water purification tablets, water filters and the like.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The problem is that these same filters can block those defending against cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

The sunlight filters through lacy hemlock needles and we stretch out on our backs, chewing the tasty twigs of a spicebush and silently admiring the forest.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The ongoing impact of the Iran war, primarily on the cost of energy and fuel, has filtered through to the UK inflation rate.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

The artists’ perspective, filtered through a Gen Z lens, struck a multigenerational nerve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

We were expected not just to be smart but to own our smartness—to inhabit it with pride—and this filtered down to how we spoke.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

First, those supply shocks are filtering into a pretty broad range of categories, not just the usual suspects like airfares, and taking their time about it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.

From BBC ● 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

I jumped and got a quick look at them, but it was difficult to see in the sunlight filtering through the cabin’s windows.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce


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