sift

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

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

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

Te-Ping Chen: For months now, I’ve been working with colleagues to sift the landscape for signs of AI’s impact on the labor market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Jinny rinsed her own fingers clean, letting a handful of wet sand and tiny shell bits sift through them briefly.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

In an office in central London, Signify's small team quietly sifts through thousands of posts.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

All day, he sifts sand and hauls broken bricks, halting at nightfall: Batteries for LED lights are too scarce and expensive to keep working into the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

Beyond the carton-covered window, rain sifts down from a platinum-colored sky.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

AFP footage from the site showed a huge crater in the ground, next to which dozens of Palestinians sifted through what appeared to be medical supplies that had been scattered by the blast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

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 18, 2026

They sifted through the big pile of records Alaric had given them.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

According to the logline, this discovery kicks off an “adventure of a lifetime” — and I’m curious what that might mean for people whose careers presumably involve carefully sifting through old dirt all day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

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

If the Queen died without an heir, the ash that had blanketed Taninli would spread, sifting into the cracks and corners of the Wood, sinking into the Nir until the river became thick and slow.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo