filter
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“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
It added that the remaining 0.02% margin is not a "real-world misidentification rate", but a boundary where additional human checks filter out potential errors before alerts are sent.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“However, these temporary tailwinds are likely to fade… Growth is expected to moderate in the coming months as the impact of higher prices and borrowing costs filter through to households and businesses,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Experts recommend specifically designed eclipse glasses which filter UV rays that meet the standard ISO 12312-2:2015.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Marcus stands near the machines that filter the water.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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The couple provided their guests with special glasses and filters bought months in advance so they could view the partial eclipse over Suffolk.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Amid ongoing concerns, district officials have assured parents schools are safe, campuses have been sanitized and high-grade air filters installed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Citing the reduced risk, Anthropic said its automated safety filters will intervene roughly 85 percent less often on Opus 5 than on Fable 5, the Mythos-class model it released last month.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
The experience showed her “there is demand for presenting yourself virtually and there’s a way to convey your cover-letter materials” that can get past new filters for job applications, which are fixated on certain keywords.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
All told, I have about 1500 hours' worth of C02 filters.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Cross polarized light microscopy uses specially filtered light to reveal structures that may be difficult to see with ordinary microscopy.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the gains filtered through to Asia, with Tokyo climbing two percent thanks to healthy advances for Kioxia, Tokyo Electron and Advantest.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
The performance will touch on the comedian’s experience moving to Ireland, the challenges of cultural differences and her relationship with her nonbinary child, all filtered through her characteristic humor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
The new concoction, meant to promote “restoration,” is a collaboration with Jolie — a New York-based beauty wellness company that sells filtered showerheads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
A chill, blue-gray light filtered down from the sky.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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It lived in the ocean almost 600 million years ago and spent much of its life in one place, filtering plankton from the surrounding seawater for food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
“The lagged pass-through of higher energy, logistics and imported input costs from Gulf War shocks are still filtering through to prices,” the economists add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Like the living room, the bedroom is painted the same flat white but the quality of the eastern light filtering into the bedroom casts a buttery glow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
The theory behind it is how it separates teams on the result of the match between them, filtering out potentially big scorelines from other matches which can skew goal difference.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
His skin shifted colors and shades, dappled in the autumn light filtering through the trees, and sometimes he matched the trees around him so well that it looked like he was made of bark.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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