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Recent Examples of sieve
The light here is dazzling, even more so when sieved through lime and olive leaves and wooden canopies to dance on walls, terracotta tables, and guests’ faces.
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Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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The liver has many functions including producing bile and various proteins, storage of energy, metabolizing nutrients, and, perhaps most significantly, filtering toxins and wastes from the body.—
Dr. John De Jong,
Boston Herald,
7 June 2026
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Vogue is committed to reporting and riffing on the global fashion conversation—always filtered through the lens of culture and what’s happening in the world at large.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
7 June 2026
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The department has contracted with Peregrine Technologies, which promises to sift through police data and publicly available information such as team practice locations and the country affiliation of popular bars, to get ahead of possible conflict.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
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To sift through all of those applications, companies are turning, again, to AI.—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2026
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Most men should be screened yearly for prostate cancer starting at age 50.—
Stephen Hudak,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 June 2026
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In particular, there was too much hero-ball and not enough cutting and screening.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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Trading Mikko Rantanen was supposed to ease the cap strain for ’26-27 and ’27-28, but the Avs landed back on that track anyway thanks to the Martin Necas contract.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
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The move against sitting government officials threatens to undermine Mexico’s ruling party — which came to power on a promise to combat corruption — and further strain the already tense relationship between the two countries.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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