filter
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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
An unusually large amount of smoke in the air from nearby forest fires acted like an additional atmospheric filter.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
“However, these temporary tailwinds are likely to fade… Growth is expected to moderate in the coming months as the impact of higher prices and borrowing costs filter through to households and businesses,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
While the experience of a work can be immediately electrifying, we sometimes do not realize its impact until it has had time to filter through the recesses of our imaginations.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Hoang, however, says she filters for those open to cats when using a dating app.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Roman's Coronagraphic Instrument will use masks, prisms, detectors, filters, and self-flexing mirrors to demonstrate technologies capable of suppressing starlight.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
The platform will be required to automatically apply stricter privacy settings to accounts belonging to children under the age of 16, strengthen parental supervision systems, and implement stricter content filters.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Singapore inflation figures on Monday will likely show that price growth accelerated in July as the energy shock filters through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
All told, I have about 1500 hours' worth of C02 filters.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
As the big day approached, Aschenbrenner’s friends, former colleagues and fellow members of the Silicon Valley intelligentsia filtered into the wedding hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
That optimism filtered through to Asia, where Seoul -- which has been at the forefront of extreme volatility in the tech sector over the past month -- climbed more than four percent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Then the buzz of the orange squeezer sounded from downstairs, and the smell of coffee and bacon filtered under my door.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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At the same time, beyond the gas pump and airline terminal, there are few signs these soaring fuel costs are filtering into the broader economy, raising prices for products such as food and clothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 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
The light filtering out between its shuttered windows cast patterns on the garden path.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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