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Recent Examples of sieve
Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
Verb
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For example, an expert may assess whether job candidates from HBCUs are being filtered out of the talent pool.—
Janice Gassam Asare,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Mocktails, juices, a self-serve soda station, specialty coffees, and filtered water stations round out the options.—
Paul Rubio,
AFAR Media,
23 June 2025
Verb
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It can be used to make product recommendations, sift through product reviews, solve customer service inquiries and track and find lower prices.—
Rytis Lauris,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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The project began in the summer of 2024, when Shooter Jennings was sifting through numerous high-resolution multi-track transfers in his dad’s studio recordings.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
16 June 2025
Verb
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As the player card above shows, Simmons had a great season as a screener – placing in the 92nd percentile in screening talent (the same is true with his cutting).—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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Part of the benefit of moving to more of a boutique model is being able to screen people out and take people that your values align with for the most part.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
20 June 2025
Verb
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The governor said rural hospitals — many of which are already strained because of low reimbursements for treating Medicare and Medicaid patients — stand to be financially devastated by further cuts.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
27 June 2025
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But even an increase of around 10% will strain that capacity.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 June 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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