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as in to clarify
to remove usually visible impurities from
after frying the chicken, we filtered the oil and kept it in the refrigerator to use again
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as in purifier
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Recent Examples of filter
Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Phoenix coffee shop Moxie Coffee wins best coffee Moxie Coffee won gold in the filter coffee, single origin experimental subcategory for its Letty Bermudez.
—Bahar Anooshahr, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Modern technology allows video crews to filter every play from every game into endless buckets — sorted among run plays, pass plays, down and distance, red zone, etc.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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Verb
An oil filter wrench to loosen and take off the filter and tighten the new one can be very helpful as the filters can be difficult to remove.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Phoenix coffee shop Moxie Coffee wins best coffee Moxie Coffee won gold in the filter coffee, single origin experimental subcategory for its Letty Bermudez.
—Bahar Anooshahr, AZCentral.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
During a recent visit, customers filtered in for to-go orders and poke bowls while Gwak and his small team worked behind the counter.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
Modern technology allows video crews to filter every play from every game into endless buckets — sorted among run plays, pass plays, down and distance, red zone, etc.
—Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filter
Verb
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Power demands from data centers strain aging infrastructure, compelling utilities to spend billions of dollars on upgrades.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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The sheer volume of these data-scraping bots has caused issues for the platform, straining its resources and increasing its hosting costs.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Chavarro also said that HSPH leadership planned to clarify which of the school’s decisions are temporary, emergency measures versus actions that will guide the school long-term.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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Wicks also helped move the project forward by drafting legislation that clarified noise of future residents was not an issue that must be studied as part of a development’s environmental reviews.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Today is probably the last day to save on Dyson's class-leading, and often pricey, devices, including the Dyson Gen5 Detect (our Editors' Choice pick for best stick vacuum), the award-winning TP07 air purifier, and more.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
9 Oct. 2025
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For me, Amazon has been a helpful place when buying certain items in bulk, like coffee or filters for my air purifier, and some more specific items that might not be at every store.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) after its world premiere at Sundance.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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The new Little River location will include three screening rooms, two flexible exhibition rooms, an art gallery, a lounge and a café.—
Edda Leon,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Over the next decade, Hawke and Linklater met periodically to read the script, refining it with screenwriter Robert Kaplow between sessions.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Duren’s been refining with big man coach Vitaly Potapenko but has shown sparingly thus far in his career.—
Hunter Patterson,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Rare earth elements, essential for everything from superconductors to optical fibers, are difficult to extract and even harder to recycle efficiently.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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Summarize, translate, and extract answers from long documents in seconds.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As for Phillips 66, the Houston refiner will soon conclude its oil-refining operations in the state.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the oversight agency Newsom sought to curb refiner profits is at least temporarily inactive.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
Verb
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It will be made for convenience, with portability and easily cleaned parts.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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To give your portafilter a scrub, invest in the Takevu coffee grinder cleaning brush.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Filter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filter. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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