filter
Example Sentences
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After a while answers began to filter back.
From Literature
Mr. Powell wisely avoided speculating on how energy prices might filter through to inflation data.
And the cartoonish portrayal of combat using childlike blocky figures helps to sanitize gritty images of war, helping it to get past social media filters—and pushing it far beyond Iran’s borders.
You don’t yet instinctively filter ideas through a lens of “that will never work” or “legal won’t approve this.”
"A star's light is filtered through the atmosphere of the planet before it reaches our telescopes," Libby-Roberts said.
From Science Daily
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
