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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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Its crimson hue results from the the light filtering properties of Earth's atmosphere, which scatter the blue wavelengths of moonlight as the lunar disk sits close to the horizon, while allowing red wavelengths to pass through relatively unhindered.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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Sometimes that battle is filtered through songs that sound like show tunes or gospel hymns.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 May 2026
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Doctors still had to sift through large volumes of information to find what mattered.—
Bruce Broussard,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Geofence warrants gather all devices in a time and place, and then, aided by technology, police sift through for potential suspects.—
Anne Toomey McKenna,
The Conversation,
29 Apr. 2026
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In addition to Sundance and Thessaloniki, Closure has screened at True/False in Columbia, MO and will screen next month at Sheffield DocFest in the UK and at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
9 May 2026
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Even if the state doesn’t explicitly offer immigrants benefits, but may provide them because immigration status isn’t screened — such as emergency room treatment — that could be deemed a violation of the trafficking law.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 May 2026
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Many soybean farmers rely on China to purchase their crops, but a trade war in 2025 strained this relationship.—
Star Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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Peña, who strained his hamstring last month, is nearing a minor-league rehab assignment and could return to the major-league roster late next week.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
6 May 2026
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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