filter
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A quarter-point increase would take a few months to filter through to annual percentage rates on existing accounts, according to Matt Schulz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026
Inflation can weigh on growth and the OBR has forecast that prices are set to rise at a faster pace as higher energy bills filter through supply chains and to consumers, especially in 2027.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
The 41-year-old finalist submitted two takes: one where he didn’t filter his accent, and another he thought would be slightly more legible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Read through such a filter, Big Drum becomes another catalyst.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Feeble sunlight pressed through the filter of clouds.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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“Most people are looking for freeze-dried food and wind-up radios from us, but also a lot of water purification tablets, water filters and the like.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
But then the models’ safety filters went on, and the models refused to help any further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Humyn Labs filters the thousands of hours of video supplied by those collectors, selecting the most useful content.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The team then evaluated the element wheel, a rotating mechanism equipped with filters and other optical components.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Without epiderm filters, this sort of physical anomaly happens.”
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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The ongoing impact of the Iran war, primarily on the cost of energy and fuel, has filtered through to the UK inflation rate.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
The general losses in New York filtered through to Asia in the morning but some markets staged a comeback as the day progressed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The filtered water is reused, and the chips break down with the worm castings into a soil amendment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
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
A big group of witches filtered into the crowd, led by Thorn’s and Seven’s parents.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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“So you get this sort of idea of a filtering through the supply chain, a filtering into other areas of the economy that would broaden the base of expansion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It holds huge amounts of water, slowing rain as it moves downhill, reducing flooding and filtering out sediment before it reaches the reservoir.
From BBC ● 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
The single streak of silver in his hair catches some of the light filtering in from his windows.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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