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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Around 13:00 BST, players began to filter out of the meeting room with it then confirmed the news conference would indeed go ahead, back at Nagyerdei Stadion at 14:30 with training to follow.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

“Can you add a filter for fragrance-free cars?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Whereas both Haydn and Mozart aimed to reveal human emotions through the filter of a gentlemanly, well-bred composure, the funeral march in Eroica is remarkable for the unflinching grip of its mood.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Once the club's data departments have the brief, filters that grade a player's overall ability are applied to whittle down the 650,000-man database to 20-50 names.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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

Hoang, however, says she filters for those open to cats when using a dating app.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Carlos is in the pantry, getting himself a glass of water from the filtered spout when he sees the two men walking up the driveway.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“So you get this sort of idea of a filtering through the supply chain, a filtering into other areas of the economy that would broaden the base of expansion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

In the stone galleries the people were gathered in clusters and groups filtering up into shadows among the blue hills.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury




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