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With record youth unemployment and vacancies half what they were in recent years employers are increasingly turning to AI to sift through the huge volume of applications and favouring online interviews over in person.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

She remembers scooping up what remained of her artwork and watching it sift through her fingers, the porcelain broken and changed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The next step for the agency is to sift through the many comments, which could lead to changes in the rule’s language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Just add water, sift in your matcha and run the matcha cycle.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

She listens to the wind sift through the filigree of the crown of the gazebo, and the walls of the maze hold steady around them, Paris murmuring below, the drowsy purr of a Saturday morning.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

So Swalwell and his congressional chief of staff launched an AI technology company that sifts and analyzes campaign fundraising data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

AI sifts through tens of millions of records of data for marketers, who then create AI agents that carry out complex marketing tasks.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

His interpretive approach, refined over years of studying the nuclear threat, credibly sifts the historical record without slowing the book’s tempo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

At an industrial site in eastern Thailand, Thitipas Choddaechachainun sifts through mounds of scrap metal, circuit boards and old computer keyboards in a cavernous warehouse beside a busy highway.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025

She stands among the ashes, bends down, and sifts through a pile of burnt wood.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Then they sifted through each potential match to trace the two whales' journey across the world.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

As Hanse sifted through archives, he soon made a surprising discovery: rare aerial photographs of Aronimink’s early days that diverged from old drawings of the grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The accountant sifted through a mountain of documents to track transfers in and out of the account, uncovering a web of transactions that hadn’t been disclosed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

I’d sifted through seven boxes of different-sized tortoiseshell buttons when Abby came bursting through the door, huffing air like she’d run a marathon.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

More than 60 different groups of interns huddled around tables, sifting through income statements, newspaper articles and an org chart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

They are getting better at sifting data into meaningful signals and meaningless noise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

In La Guaira, the situation is catastrophic, with hundreds sleeping in the streets and others sifting through mountains of rubble day and night, searching for their dead.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“You’re sifting through a bunch of profiles. It’s really hard to understand and find somebody that’s compatible for you based on your specific types of preferences,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

Her gaze fell to the ground, pupils darting back and forth, as though she was sifting through every event of the past two days.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman