filter
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During normal times when there is no eclipse, scientists study the Sun's atmosphere with satellites equipped with a coronagraph -- "a filter that blocks out the photosphere", Brun explained.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
They can build retention ponds or swales to filter out contaminants before water percolates underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Overnight market action again reflected sentiment that investors continue to read headlines through a filter of hope—desperately wanting to believe that peace is just around the corner,” Arlan Suderman of StoneX says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"We've essentially built a scientific spam filter," Professor Barnett said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026
I didn’t even take any in, just let it filter against me and felt how hot it was.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
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In addition, air purifiers — with carbon filters to control odor — would be in every classroom.
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
She calculated the numbers using a few key filters: first, she used personal consumption expenditure, the Fed’s stated preferred measure of inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 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
He opens the door, and the noise filters back in.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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That optimism filtered through to Asia, where Seoul -- which has been at the forefront of extreme volatility in the tech sector over the past month -- climbed more than four percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
The new concoction, meant to promote “restoration,” is a collaboration with Jolie — a New York-based beauty wellness company that sells filtered showerheads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
"I did a lot of research, and I filtered a lot of people out," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The only light filtered through narrow ventilation slats.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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When the lawsuit was filed in mid-2024, government authorities were learning more about how such air bags were filtering into the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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
Founded long before the generative AI boom created the risk of calls using "deepfake" voices resembling real friends or family, the company is now working on filtering potentially fraudulent conversations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
She tried not to think about what was probably happening out there: The show didn’t start for another forty-five minutes, but some of the early birds in the audience would be filtering in.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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