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Messi trusts the people who run them, some of them with him since his early days at Barcelona, and a thorough filter means he only gets offered and chooses what he is comfortable with.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Meta has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and says it has taken “steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people’s privacy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Higher prices for a barrel of oil take time to filter down to retail gas prices, but a look at the oil market’s “prompt spread” shows bigger gas bills look likely.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Energy indirectly impacts core inflation by affecting the cost of production and transportation, which can filter through into prices of goods and services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
It was Mister Ngwata’s job to protect the chief and filter all of his visitors.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
An independent study revealed that these bots bombarded a U.N. data hub with more than 16,000 requests, eventually utilizing unauthorized techniques to circumvent security filters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
On Saturday evening, engineers turned their attention to the element wheel, which contains filters, prisms, and other optical components.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Without epiderm filters, this sort of physical anomaly happens.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
“They came through the stereo, speaking loudly into my ear, filtered through the added beauty of a child’s brain taking that all in.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Chris Lofts, the site manager, said the waste was first filtered before having water added and being fed into a digester to create methane.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Swiss GDP last contracted in the third quarter of 2025, as the first round of U.S. tariffs filtered through the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Whenever rain fell on the island, much of it filtered into the river.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nevertheless, beyond the fuel pump and airline terminal, there are few signs yet that these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, the Journal’s Konrad Putzier writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
This prominence emitted strongly in light associated with hydrogen, allowing its original bright pink color to survive despite the atmospheric filtering.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Dim streaks of light, gray and waning, are filtering in through a nearby window.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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