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Recent Examples of sieve
Later, Meghan scrapes the honey off the hive frame, clearly in awe of the whole process, and sieves it to get rid of the honeycomb.
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Issy Ronald, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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
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Issy Ronald, CNN, 4 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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While these tools are typically applied for the initial candidate screening, these systems can filter out even highly-qualified candidates if their profiles don’t meet the AI system’s particular criteria.—
Jon Stojan,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Complicating matters further, tariffs are starting to filter through into wholesale prices.—
Garth Friesen,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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The starting point is to sift through the available signals and pinpoint those that are most useful.—
Tate Olinghouse,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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How does Google or Grok sift and deliver results, compared with a living, breathing human at Belfast’s Public Library?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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Once the room was committed to the crossover, Mac screened The Golden Bachelor’s season one premiere and finale episodes so the writers could study the show’s episodic structure.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
21 Aug. 2025
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Since Sundance, the film has screened at over 25 international festivals, collecting honors including best feature film and audience choice awards at SXSW London, San Francisco International Film Festival and IFFLA.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
21 Aug. 2025
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Persistently high unemployment in California not only strains unemployment insurance and social services but also dampens consumer confidence, posing risks to the stability of the nation's largest state economy.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Aug. 2025
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Public Universities Relying on Premium Tuition: While international percentages might be lower at flagships (e.g., 10-15% at Purdue and UIUC), the loss of revenue from students paying triple the in-state tuition (as at UC schools) severely strains budgets that rely on this cross-subsidy.—
Scott White,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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