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filter

[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

By pinning structural failures of U.S. health infrastructure onto a single doctor, both supporters and critics can selectively filter for what they already believe.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.

From Salon Aug. 18, 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

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

Teens wouldn’t be able to use extreme makeup filters.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

She and her sister both approve of hiding the numbers of likes and restricting filters.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Like counts would be hidden by default and cosmetic surgery filters barred.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

It filters down through the thickest leaves from a generous sky that is never completely dark.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Flores, whose only public comments had for months been filtered through his legal team, agreed to speak with The Times, detailing the toll that the prior year and a half had taken on him.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 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

Smoke from blazes in northwestern Ontario has filtered down to Toronto, the provincial capital.

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.

From Science Daily Jul. 14, 2026

Sunlight filtered through the branches overhead, throwing spotlights on the path, and there was a certain distinctive, heady spring lightness in the air.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Worker bees normally serve as a colony's first line of defense against contamination, filtering harmful substances before they can spread through the hive.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

While government measures have softened the hit from surging oil costs, policymakers expect higher energy prices to start filtering through to a wider array of consumer goods over the summer.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Dr Bloomer says "significant sunspot activity" is visible with solar filtering but that you need magnification when viewing with the naked eye.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“The lagged pass-through of higher energy, logistics and imported input costs from Gulf War shocks are still filtering through to prices,” the economists add.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

The voice filtering through the ceiling repeats itself.

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




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