FILTERING Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

filtering

verb

present participle of filter

as in straining

to pass through a filter steep the tea and then filter it to get rid of the leaves

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as in clarifying

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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Recent Examples of filtering Those searches risk filtering out the candidates most likely to bring a perspective your bank lacks. — Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Director Dustin Rikert worked efficiently, filming several takes of attendees filtering into the auction. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026 Take Samuel Gui Yang, who offered a compelling read on the Chinese tale of the White Snake and Green Snake sisters, filtering it through the atmosphere and color language of early-1990s Hong Kong cinema. — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026 Oyster reefs play an outsized role in protecting shorelines, filtering water, and providing habitats for marine life. — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2026 Bangkok's preservationists realized that the river could once again become the soul of the city, and creative hoteliers and restaurateurs began filtering back. — Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026 Even more baffling is that American Girl already includes age categories as a method for filtering books on its website. — Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026 Pure Bass Sound while actively filtering out unwanted background distractions. — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026 After filtering out unwanted particles with plastic, paraffin, and a 2-meter-thick concrete wall, detectors located in a van recorded the shadow of a lead brick pile. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Like so many Americans, Jenny Escolastico has watched wearily as the cost of living has risen, straining her household budget.

— Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
The payoff is a system that can handle more energy without straining the rest of the time.

— Rowan Jacobsen, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of straining

Verb

Before meeting with a patient advocate, identify your main objectives – for example, preparing for a transition home, clarifying a treatment plan or understanding medication changes.

— Jennifer Schlinger, The Conversation, 6 Oct. 2026
In November 2025, South Korea proposed talks on clarifying the borderline, but North Korea didn’t respond.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of clarifying

Verb

This will be screening at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday, October 24th.

— Libby Smith, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
For lung cancer, screening guidelines can vary, as the disease doesn’t always show obvious signals and can occur in both smokers and never-smokers.

— Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of screening

Verb

Diffusion language models take a different approach, generating and refining multiple tokens in parallel.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2026
The team revised Rotta’s face and coloring to bring him closer to Jabba while refining his muscular physique.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of refining

Verb

In the Johnson administration, that has taken a back seat to extracting cash from those deemed by these redistributionists as having too much of it.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
For supporters, the proposal represents an emergency fiscal response aimed at temporarily extracting revenue from unprecedented concentrations of wealth.

— Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of extracting

Verb

In his appeal, Juszczyk also argued that fining players for pretending to drink beer was hypocritical given the NFL’s beer sponsorships.

— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
Players are simply not going to hold back because their coaches say, or the NFL is fining their beloved club.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of fining

Verb

Airbnb guests can say goodbye to checkout chores like washing dishes, stripping beds and taking out the trash under a new policy announced this week.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
An employee handled dirty utensils and dishes with gloves on and later handled clean dishes with those same gloves without washing hands in between.

— Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of washing

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