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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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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

Surgeons attached the pig kidney to the blood vessels inside Tim Andrews' body so the organ could filter the blood.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Wastewater treatment plants in the U.S. and Mexico filter some of the contaminants, but those facilities have failed over the past decade and released hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

But these days, the two brothers are very much outsiders—playing the role of agitators in the kind of drama that can erupt in wealthy families as sizable fortunes filter down through the generations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

OK, “hepatic” equals “liver.’The liver’s job is to filter the blood.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

“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

"People will find new ways to have fake filters, and correct certain parts of their videos or pictures," she says.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Without epiderm filters, this sort of physical anomaly happens.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

Cross polarized light microscopy uses specially filtered light to reveal structures that may be difficult to see with ordinary microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Carlos is in the pantry, getting himself a glass of water from the filtered spout when he sees the two men walking up the driveway.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 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

On Friday, attention turns to August consumer price figures for the Tokyo metropolitan area that will indicate if higher oil prices triggered by the Middle East conflict are filtering through to broader consumer costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

DCCBs may relax the blood vessels that carry blood into these filtering units more strongly than they affect the vessels carrying blood away.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Faintly he could make out a strip of wan, greyish light filtering in.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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