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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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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

Wastewater treatment plants in the U.S. and Mexico filter some of the contaminants, but those facilities have failed over the past decade and released hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 2, 2026

Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

“Cheers,” he whispers, holding his coffee filter aloft.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

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

Gravelines, one of the country's biggest nuclear power stations located between Dunkirk and Calais in the Hauts-de-France region, was also closed last August because of jellyfish in its filters.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

The platform will be required to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under the age of 16, strengthen parental supervision systems, and implement stricter content filters.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

The light beneath filters through the spaces between the stones.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Ophie sat in a chair, one that she had moved so that it sat in the sunlight that filtered in from the windows.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

At the same time, beyond the gas pump and airline terminal, there are few signs these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, raising prices for products such as food and clothing.

From The Wall Street Journal 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

This prominence emitted strongly in light associated with hydrogen, allowing its original bright pink color to survive despite the atmospheric filtering.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The sunlight, filtering through innumerable leaves, was still hot on their faces.

From "1984" by George Orwell




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