sift

It led his team to sift colonial-era archives and convince families to share fragile letters revealing ugly histories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“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

At a gleaming new factory in China's central hinterland, masked workers in white uniform season and sift through mounds of latiao, a longtime popular snack that has found hungry fans overseas.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

The magistrate gave the defense four months to sift through the eight thousand pages of typed evidence and twelve thousand documents to prepare its case.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

His Codex agent sifts through heaps of options flow data to identify big, aggressive trades, likely coming from institutional players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 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

The Policy Lab sifts through all that data, evaluating some 500 markers to generate a list of individuals and families that its model predicts to be at high risk of becoming homeless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

She unzips her duffel bag and sifts through what's she's brought.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

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

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

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

A Los Angeles Fire Department crew sifted through rubble on the property and found a wedding ring, along with other precious belongings, authorities said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Later, they were not quite able to fathom this themselves; they sifted through the facts with grave purpose.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen

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

The Emmy Awards have become a streamlined affair in recent years, as voters, sifting through a fragmented TV landscape, inevitably land on a small set of favorite programs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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

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

Arthur and Guenever, like good children, sat with their hands in their laps to listen to the stories. like children, they wen alert and eager, sifting the truth as best they could.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White