sift

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

Mr. Burnham’s problems sift into two categories, “U-turn” and “huh?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

For the next hour or so, the volunteers sift through the seagrass as it lays flat on the shore.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Perhaps you are thinking, your abuelo was a bit loquito, leaving you so much paper to sift through and ponder.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

He sifts through long-forgotten memoirs, archives and personal papers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 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

In an office in central London, Signify's small team quietly sifts through thousands of posts.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

All day, he sifts sand and hauls broken bricks, halting at nightfall: Batteries for LED lights are too scarce and expensive to keep working into the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

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

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

However when the team sifted through their data, they found that at certain wavelengths, the object's light simply disappeared.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

The jury sifted through 57,376 photographs from 3,747 photojournalists to select 45 prize-winning shots from around the world.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

The volcanic texture turned into soft sands and sifted away, revealing a smooth oval egg.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

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

A man returned seven bags of dumped rubbish to a fly-tipper's doorstep after sifting through CCTV.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Cool,” I said, dipping my toes into the box and sifting through the books.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling