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Recent Examples of sieve
No other team, however, can match the numbers of a Burnley side that, lest it be forgotten, sieved 78 goals in 38 games while being relegated from the Premier League under Vincent Kompany’s management last season.
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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.
—Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
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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Daniel Taylor, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.
—Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
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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This includes serving as a sewage station for your body—filtering and detoxing your blood, breaking down old red blood cells and recycling their iron—and a manufacturing plant of sorts—making key proteins and immune system cells, storing vitamins and minerals and processing your nutrients.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Through this aperture, sunlight could filter all the way down to the church floor.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Look in the mangroves for snapper, sift through the low sea grass for a chance to catch tarpon, or troll on the back of your boat for delicious mahi-mahi or swordfish.—
Teaghan Skulszki,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Sep. 2025
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Interview transcripts, customer feedback, survey responses—what used to take hours or days to sift through can now be summarized and tagged in minutes.—
Catherine Iger,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Brennand closed Saturday’s event with the heartening news that Manas is now screening in the very communities where the abuse and violence depicted onscreen are taking place.—
Stacey Wilson Hunt,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Sep. 2025
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Guests with bags larger than 4 inches by 6 inches are required to be screened through X-ray machines.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Disengaged operators take shortcuts and postpone investments, perpetuating the cycle that strains corporate cash flow.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Bastian helped build strong employee-management relations in an industry where such ties are often strained, turning Delta into America’s most profitable airline and sharing billions with employees along the way, according to Tully.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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