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sifting

noun as in threshing

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In a video shared by the president, emergency workers could be seen sifting through the rubble as they continued to search for victims on Tuesday morning.

From BBC

She visited the site of the house on Thursday afternoon for the first time with a shovel in her hand, sifting through the smoldering ashes looking for anything of sentimental interest.

“It was a matter of sifting through and figuring out what I needed to complete Johnny’s story.”

They might be tempted to burn this game footage, to put this behind them, but this is one of those strange games in which they’ll be sifting through the rubble of … a win?

Zohar said the young man’s father had spent weeks sifting earth to try to find his son’s head.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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