sift

“It is our job to sift through the sales pitch to determine what is real and what is bluster,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Rescue teams and family members continue to sift through the rubble in La Guaira, searching for victims and loved ones.

From Barron's ● 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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

I sift through the pillowcase and pull out a folded piece of paper.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

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

Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

Soot from the engine fills my mouth, blankets my clothes, sifts down my neck.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads

Agents sifted through hundreds of thousands of records seized during Kao’s arrest and found that many were consistent with his account of widespread influence peddling.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

The AI sifted through my Google Drive for relevant interview transcripts and searched the web for facts at my bidding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The officers were marveling over that circumstance as they sifted through his meager possessions.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Instead, it was a layered cake made from whipping butter and sugar until it was frothy and then sifting in the dry ingredients.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

All of this means much more time sifting through silica and wielding her tiny enamel brush.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Others carry the earth to a nearby seasonal river, where mostly women crouch in the murky water, washing and sifting mud and sand hoping to detect a tiny trace of the element.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

AI-driven answers culled from sifting information in large language models might lack important context or fail to interpret it correctly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

We worked through the days and in the twilight getting in the rice, and then we worked three more days draining the fields and clearing them, and then three more nights sifting and winnowing.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya