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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
In cities across the Midwest and Northeast, people wore masks outdoors to filter out the dangerous air.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
He posts selfies using the Shrek filter, captioned "selfie with my twin".
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
I got him his filter, and we worked on with no more talk.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
Snow filters into the car and melts on the dashboard.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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The performance will touch on the comedian’s experience moving to Ireland, the challenges of cultural differences and her relationship with her nonbinary child, all filtered through her characteristic humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
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
She shakes out our hair on the euphoric Good For The Soul, and throws shapes to the filtered grooves of Love Sensation, external.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
There in the moonlight, as the music filtered through the air, sat the bunny, his eyes intense and staring, an unearthly aura about them.
From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe
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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
These cells appear to improve attention by filtering out distractions and directing the brain toward the most important information.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 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
In economies like the Philippines, problems with energy supplies have already started filtering through to transport and food prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
I liked the stained glass in the sanctuary, even though crucified Jesus was really bloody, too bloody for stained glass, I thought, all those red and magenta pieces filtering sunlight.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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