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Recent Examples of sieveStock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.—Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024 The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024 To sieve only the sound of a performance is to miss out on a world of visual and atmospheric cues, from body language to lighting to set design, not to mention audience reaction.—Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024 Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.—Kristina A. Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020 See All Example Sentences for sieve
Then, just a few days before the first batch of players were due to report for pre-season training, the first reports started to filter through that something terrible had happened, more than 1,000 miles away, in the middle of the night.
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Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
4 July 2025
Lessons from the Ukrainian battlefields have even filtered down into their training.
Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer campripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.
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Brit Morse,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
Detectives sifted through years of social media posts, noticing the growing tension between Skylar and her friends.
Its goal: to bring cutting-edge early detection to the millions who never make it to screening in time—not just those with the means to optimize wellness.
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Sindhya Valloppillil,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
This record-breaking trend began earlier this month when TSA screened nearly 3.1 million travelers on Sunday, June 22, marking the single busiest day in the agency's history.
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