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“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
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
Higher prices for a barrel of oil take time to filter down to retail gas prices, but a look at the oil market’s “prompt spread” shows bigger gas bills look likely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Energy indirectly impacts core inflation by affecting the cost of production and transportation, which can filter through into prices of goods and services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
One of the adults went off to filter water and fell in the creek.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 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
The filters clog at low speeds or cold temperatures; burner units pack up; the sensors break constantly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
On Saturday evening, engineers turned their attention to the element wheel, which contains filters, prisms, and other optical components.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
But Pima’s mother told him and Pima to use the masks no matter what, and for sure there was a lot of black grime in the filters when he immersed them in the ocean.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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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
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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
One way employees have used their AI agents is to manage their inbox: summarizing emails, filtering out spam messages and automatically drafting responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
According to the researchers, this imbalance could increase pressure inside the filtering structures and potentially contribute to continued kidney damage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Discarded, the plastic mask had recycled itself, turning into pink dust, which the carpet in the elevator was already filtering away.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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