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The 41-year-old finalist submitted two takes: one where he didn’t filter his accent, and another he thought would be slightly more legible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
He says this creates a "perfect storm" because AI is then more likely to be used to filter through a large volume of applications.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Read through such a filter, Big Drum becomes another catalyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Vance pleaded unfamiliarity, explaining that “sometimes information doesn’t filter up to me.”
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
While he finished putting up his tent, I went off to filter water for the morning.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion and make changes to its Facebook and Instagram platforms, including hiding likes and reactions and blocking teens from using extreme makeup filters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
These filters reduced an enormous collection of possibilities to 373 prohormones, making experimental testing much more practical.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
But then the models’ safety filters went on, and the models refused to help any further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Humyn Labs filters the thousands of hours of video supplied by those collectors, selecting the most useful content.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
She heavily filters photos of meals and selfies.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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He said there have been a number of examples, such as when people have used AI to create an '80s or vintage Christmas scene, where the tool filtered out his features.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The general losses in New York filtered through to Asia in the morning but some markets staged a comeback as the day progressed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
From there, medbeds filtered out to the rest of the secret-space-program community and to other alternative subcultures, including the New Age world.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
And instead of relying on the local soil, they would pot the plants in a material made from coconut fiber, with nutrients and filtered water provided via drip-irrigation technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Branches overhead had been cleared away, too, not quite to the top of the bush but almost, so that the sunlight filtered through easily, and soft moss grew on the ground.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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By Thursday, she’s ready to start filtering through what she’s collected, and on Fridays and Saturdays, she fills out the applications.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
One way employees have used their AI agents is to manage their inbox: summarizing emails, filtering out spam messages and automatically drafting responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The sunlight filtering through them dappled the hall with shimmering lace.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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