filter
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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
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
Surgeons attached the pig kidney to the blood vessels inside Tim Andrews' body so the organ could filter the blood.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
What to do if your filter needs calibration?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
A dim, yellowy light came on that made everything look like a smartphone picture with a vintage filter on it.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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A blanket ban on all cosmetic filters for children will also be put in place.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
In practical terms, the test confirmed that ground teams can remotely control the instrument's various systems, including movable mechanisms that position its masks, color filters, lenses, and prisms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Children’s products, water filters and power tools also compete on safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Mom filters other people’s lives through her distorting lens.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
Chris Lofts, the site manager, said the waste was first filtered before having water added and being fed into a digester to create methane.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Soon the soft sound of snoring filtered in from the back.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nevertheless, beyond the fuel pump and airline terminal, there are few signs yet that these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, the Journal’s Konrad Putzier writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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
“For a year perhaps,” I said, “not forever. Who could endure such a filtering of sunlight and fresh air as they do?”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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