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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
“You’re missing the performance because you’re not there as it unfolds, but you can still see the result face-to-face, without the filter of a video or photograph,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
He took questions on Snapchat and replied with no filter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Before the first week of term was up, awesome tales about the Headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, began to filter through to the newcomers.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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These filters reduced an enormous collection of possibilities to 373 prohormones, making experimental testing much more practical.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
Women's health creators and charities have told us their content has been removed, had sensitivity filters added, or had its reach suppressed - a practice known as "shadowbanning".
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Qualifying residents will also receive air filters to mitigate pollution from diesel and heavy construction equipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
To keep our electronics safe, we have a whole-house surge protector, which filters out sudden electrical spikes in the grid that can harm our appliances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
All told, I have about 1500 hours' worth of C02 filters.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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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
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
“They came through the stereo, speaking loudly into my ear, filtered through the added beauty of a child’s brain taking that all in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
I dropped my decommissioned backpack on the kitchen table and filled the kettle from the pitcher of filtered water I kept on the counter.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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Twilight was filtering through Ohio’s leafy Cuyahoga Valley National Park as my husband and I parked our minivan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
When asked, Spotify said it had rolled out platform-wide policies, external against impersonation and is working to the improve filtering out of AI-related issues on its platform.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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
Looking up I could see faint moonlight filtering in through drain grates far overhead.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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