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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

In “Baldwin Street” Mr. Gowin and his wife share memories and sift through photos of their family in a conversation that is woven through the collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

My father likes to sift through street castoffs and industrial junk heaps for treasures.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

Yet from that painful personal source emerges something unfortunately indistinct, as though softly blanketed by the snow that sifts slowly down during this holiday drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

Los Angeles Times columnist Glenn Whipp sifts through the lead actress contenders and the Oscar shortlists in the Friday edition of his newsletter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

He sifts through the pile of blueprints, checking labels and dates.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

The Juicy Bits: We sifted through evidence and testimony to figure out how billionaires Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman ended up in a courtroom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 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

He’d insisted that all questions be submitted to him in advance, and he sifted through the cards searching for those he chose to answer.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

And while humans control most of it, bots are faster at gobbling it up and sifting through it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

Other images showed rescue workers with flashlights sifting through rubble.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

My mother had been sifting through the mail and placing envelopes on the table next to her after she glanced at them.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English