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Recent Examples of sieve
The combine then automatically calibrates variables like rotor speed, fan speed and sieve clearances to produce those outcomes.
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Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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.
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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.
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Rachel Cusk,
New Yorker,
24 Aug. 2025
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Michael L. Millenson,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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.
—
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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With his first ball after the announcement filtered out, Stokes sent down a delivery that was edged by New Zealand batter Zak Foulkes to second slip where the catch was taken by Harry Brook, the man likely to take over as England test captain.
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Sunlight filtered in through the trees, lighting up lush green moss.
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The toll has continued to soar as rescue crews sift through the wreckage.
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For the last year or so, Pocatello police have used Code Four, an AI tool developed by former students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to sift through bodycam footage and produce draft reports for officers to review.
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Participants will be high school students aged 14 to 17 who will have to advance through application and screening processes to be selected, resulting in one male athlete and one female athlete from each state or territory competing.
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Breeders typically screen over 10,000 offspring to find just one that is better than both parents.
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The inconsistency in messaging raises further doubts that negotiators can meet their 60-day deadline after the two sides traded attacks over the weekend, straining their already fragile ceasefire.
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Meanwhile the servers strain under the weight of AI companies scraping the encyclopedia in bulk, on a roughly $180 million annual budget funded mostly by donations of between two and eleven dollars.
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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