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sift

[sift] / sɪft /


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

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

“The signal-to-noise ratio in financial data is extremely low,” meaning it is tough to sift the important information from the mass of random and irrelevant data.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

It launched a sub-brand called D&B Unlocked, a ticketed event discovery platform in which guests can sift through upcoming nightlife offerings at their local arcade.

From Slate Jun. 25, 2026

The first stop on the conveyor belts takes the materials over a series of rolling coils called an auger screen that sift out the cardboard and push it to a separate conveyor belt.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Sciola was talking to her, as soothingly as to a child; we could hear him above the crunching footsteps, the drip of water and the sift of wind in the trees overhead.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

He sifts through long-forgotten memoirs, archives and personal papers.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 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

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

Times BuzzMeter panel sifts through several crowded fields in our roundup of the supporting categories for comedy and drama series.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 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

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

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

Her voice sifted through the screen, little barbed-wire tips on every word.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

A man returned seven bags of dumped rubbish to a fly-tipper's doorstep after sifting through CCTV.

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

He announced that the country's domestic intelligence agency would break with the American data sifting giant Palantir in favour of local firm ChapsVision.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Alien hunters now are looking for any sign of technology, radio or not, and sifting through data from large observatories that span the electromagnetic spectrum.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

But most are not well versed in sifting through medical research, and separating high-quality evidence from anecdotes and hunches.

From Slate Apr. 16, 2026

The lead-up to her arrival began weeks before, with the guardians sifting through all our work—our paintings, sketches, pottery, all our essays and poems.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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