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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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For example, the agents circumvented a filter on the website that was blocking their requests for data, she said, ultimately using a technique that the website operators didn’t permit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

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

I filter the water through a straw and it easily removes the parasite.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Children’s products, water filters and power tools also compete on safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

She has to remain in the air lock until the filters have a chance to purify the foreign air.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

I grabbed the pitcher of filtered water and opened up my meds.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

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

Scientists have long thought that worker bees help shield queens from contamination by filtering harmful substances out of the food they provide.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

I referred some of my e-mailers to peacefire.org, a children’s rights website, for help in dealing with blocking and filtering software.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz




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