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Recent Examples of sieve
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.
—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
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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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.
—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
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
Verb
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There it is filtered and purified before being fed into the Reflecting Pool.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
31 May 2026
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Early research shows that filtering out content related to making biological weapons from AI training data can reduce how often the model responds with information that could be used for harm.—
Huo Jingnan,
NPR,
31 May 2026
Verb
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Traditional job boards require recruiters to sift through volumes of applications, many of which may not meet basic qualifications.—
Audrey Payne,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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There are also programs to help you with social listening, automate surveys for audience feedback and sift through comments on your posts.—
John Hall,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
Verb
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Before Universal could make a decision about Penland, a news story emerged about Scorsese screening the film for Catholic clergy.—
Isaac Butler,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
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The main byproduct of this process is a compound known as benzoylecgonine — the exact compound that drug tests screen for.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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Trading Mikko Rantanen was supposed to ease the cap strain for ’26-27 and ’27-28, but the Avs landed back on that track anyway thanks to the Martin Necas contract.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
3 June 2026
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The move against sitting government officials threatens to undermine Mexico’s ruling party — which came to power on a promise to combat corruption — and further strain the already tense relationship between the two countries.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2026
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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