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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Wall Street analysts are pessimistic on Lululemon, through the filter of their usually rose-colored glasses.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

For example, the agents circumvented a filter on the website that was blocking their requests for data, she said, ultimately using a technique that the website operators didn’t permit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Meta has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and says it has taken “steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people’s privacy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

The NHS advises pregnant women, external to keep caffeine intake below 200mg a day, about two mugs of filter coffee, as studies have linked it to low birth weight and other complications.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I’d find a face filter to turn her into a green chameleon with its fleshy pink mouth wide open in shock.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

"These images might be altered using photo-editing tools or filters, people standing in particular poses, use of lighting, lots could even be AI-generated," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

I'd been asleep long enough that my filters were useless.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

I can fix this problem with a filtered water tank.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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

On the first day, worker bees filtered out 95% of the pesticide and transferred it into the honeycomb.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Jim and Ophelia had invented some of the lexicon, and the expressions had filtered into the PIH culture.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

Scientists have long thought that worker bees help shield queens from contamination by filtering harmful substances out of the food they provide.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

His brown shoes shine in the light filtering through the windows.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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