filtering

Example Sentences

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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

Wednesday’s report contained a few signs that high gasoline prices are filtering into other costs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

These conditions involve immune-related damage to the kidney's filtering units and often have limited treatment options.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

The Ubiquity of Filtering and Coincidence Broadly understood, the study of filtering is nothing less than the study of psychology.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos