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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Barn owls are champion head tilters, for example, and can also swivel their neck 270 degrees around.

From Scientific American • Jul. 29, 2023

Burgundy is a wine for tilters at windmills … Burgundy is a diva.

From Slate • May 5, 2012

He is contemptuous of the crusaders and windmill tilters among his colleagues.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their faults were the faults of lusty, red-blooded youth, and their virtues the open-handed generosity, the ready sympathy of those uncertain tilters at life who ride or fall in the tourney of a new country.

From Judith of the Plains by Manning, Marie

Two other persons, concealed from the view of the table tilters, ran through an alphabet with a pencil, marking each letter at which the bell rang. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew




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