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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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During a hurricane, for instance, a bunch of Lumen generators in Houston went down because someone decided not to pay for a $100 filter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“You’re missing the performance because you’re not there as it unfolds, but you can still see the result face-to-face, without the filter of a video or photograph,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The NHS advises pregnant women, external to keep caffeine intake below 200mg a day, about two mugs of filter coffee, as studies have linked it to low birth weight and other complications.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Since then, I've used 131 hours of filter on various EVAs.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

The war filters in over the radio, remote and crackly, the voices from London fading through the static.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

Branches overhead had been cleared away, too, not quite to the top of the bush but almost, so that the sunlight filtered through easily, and soft moss grew on the ground.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

One way employees have used their AI agents is to manage their inbox: summarizing emails, filtering out spam messages and automatically drafting responses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The dismal truth was filtering through to everybody.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding


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