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Rescue teams and family members continue to sift through the rubble in search of victims and loved ones, with nearly 17,000 people injured in the tremors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 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

A member from this diversity committee sits on each of the other committees that sift through names that have been put forward.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Maybe he could sift the ashes down more and make that do until the men left?

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

She is talking about her late husband's former employer as she sifts through a pile of letters from his pension company.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

As for me, I sit in the sand, enjoying the gritty feeling as it sifts through my wriggling toes.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

In an abandoned luxury apartment in the Syrian capital Damascus, armed men dressed in military fatigues sifted through designer clothes and documents.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

When ready, the baskets were lifted out of the water by crane and placed on a barge alongside the Salvor, where researchers sifted through the contents by hand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

One trader sifted through pink, green and purple beads that she said would be moulded into e-cigarette casings sold in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● May 6, 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 crash site was cordoned off for 2 days as they took photographs from every possible angle, including the air, and sifted through the wreckage.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Telegram channels -- sifting through intelligence data -- close the information gap, putting out daily forecasts on the probability of different types of attacks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

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

To a windowless building where he stood in one place all day sifting through dirt without eating or drinking or seeing the sun?

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez