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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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She proceeded to remove, prime and reset the fuel filter.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Also rooted in old-school, so it spoke to my youth, but it’s through a psychedelic filter and musique concrète,” McFadden says.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

So we stock up on air purifiers, now an $18 billion industry, along with indoor air quality monitors and subscription air filter services.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

In cities across the Midwest and Northeast, people wore masks outdoors to filter out the dangerous air.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

The residents started to filter out of the dining room.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

“We have replaced the air filters at the schools that are impacted,” Supt.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Citing the reduced risk, Anthropic said its automated safety filters will intervene roughly 85 percent less often on Opus 5 than on Fable 5, the Mythos-class model it released last month.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

The experience showed her “there is demand for presenting yourself virtually and there’s a way to convey your cover-letter materials” that can get past new filters for job applications, which are fixated on certain keywords.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

The site and app are entirely free, but two paid tiers offer more profile customization, filters and features, all with zero third-party ads.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

The air filters cycle on, making a low hum beneath the sound of the fan.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Kyle Gordy does not drink alcohol or smoke, takes 30 supplements a day, eats only organic food and drinks nothing but filtered water.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

One thing we didn’t want to bring was a travel crib, so I filtered carefully for vacation rentals that had one.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

Soon an English-accented voice of a BBC reporter filtered through the room.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai

It lived in the ocean almost 600 million years ago and spent much of its life in one place, filtering plankton from the surrounding seawater for food.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

“The lagged pass-through of higher energy, logistics and imported input costs from Gulf War shocks are still filtering through to prices,” the economists add.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

The theory behind it is how it separates teams on the result of the match between them, filtering out potentially big scorelines from other matches which can skew goal difference.

From BBC Jun. 23, 2026

By this time several other of his assistants were filtering in and out of the small anteroom alongside the stage.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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