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Recent Examples of sieve
Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
These recordings function like a kind of filter or sieve, retaining one part of us while the rest is allowed to drain away.
—Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
But to the surprise of the researchers, not only did the 2-D membranes sieve out the deuterons, but the separation was also accomplished with a high degree of efficiency.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2016
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Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026
These recordings function like a kind of filter or sieve, retaining one part of us while the rest is allowed to drain away.
—Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
But to the surprise of the researchers, not only did the 2-D membranes sieve out the deuterons, but the separation was also accomplished with a high degree of efficiency.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Jan. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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Such a search through Google’s location data begins with a haystack of hundreds of millions of phones and enables the police to filter out a few that could lead to a suspect.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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Top opaque wood fencing with a top portion that is spaced to allow some light to filter through to keep your privacy fence from making your backyard feel too closed in.—
Kristin Hohenadel,
The Spruce,
24 Apr. 2026
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At stake in the case is whether the government can sift through voluminous data that exposes a phone's location at a crime scene – without knowing who is holding it.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2026
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With 66 brands exhibiting at the world’s annual horological tradeshow in Geneva last week, there were a lot of novelties to sift through—and perhaps more covetable new references to try on, think about, and pick apart than ever before.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
22 Apr. 2026
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But he was screened on the overtime winner from Lane Hutson.—
Pierre LeBrun,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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While several have since reopened, screening a limited number of films, the Nowruz New Year period, a 13-day holiday from March 20, and typically the most important season for the local box office, was severely impacted.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
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Sanctions and exclusion from the F-35 program, triggered by the S-400 purchase, have strained ties unnecessarily while Russia benefits from the wedge.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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The bottom of the barbell is financially strained, but at least partially visible to policymakers because that is where safety-net eligibility lives.—
Katica Roy,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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