filtering

Example Sentences

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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

Humans can often sustain focus on a specific goal while filtering out competing information.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Instead, signs of high inflation, and particularly signs that high energy prices are filtering through into other areas of the economy, would increase expectations that the Fed’s next move will be a rate hike.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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