sift

And, with days and days of footage to sift through, not everything that happens makes it to air.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

That’s a lovely way to describe it, and “Clayface” does have decent ideas for those game to sift through the muck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Like other quant firms, Two Sigma programmed its computers to sift through oceans of stock prices and other data to find patterns that helped predict where markets would move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Cottell added it would take "months and months" to sift through all the photos, but the charity would write up a report of its findings.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

“You see that corn? I want the dirt chopped up so fine I can sift it through my fingers,” he tells me.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

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

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

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

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

Then they sifted through each potential match to trace the two whales' journey across the world.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

Above him the framed rectangle of sky slowly shifted through its limited segment of the spectrum, yellow to orange, as he sifted unfamiliar feelings and returned to certain memories again and again.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

He will usher them through the chaos of the evening; sifting through datapoints, overreacting to turnout data, monitoring bellwether counties.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

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

Best the Wafles can tell after sifting through family documents last year, Ferris Wafle had just begun playing at William & Mary in 1928, as an offensive and defensive lineman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 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

All around us, people perceptibly in need of new clothes are sifting through the racks and piles of hanging and folded goods.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone