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Recent Examples of sieveNo 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 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 See All Example Sentences for sieve
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.
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Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Through this aperture, sunlight could filter all the way down to the church floor.
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.
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Teaghan Skulszki,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Sep. 2025
Interview transcripts, customer feedback, survey responses—what used to take hours or days to sift through can now be summarized and tagged in minutes.
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.
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Stacey Wilson Hunt,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Sep. 2025
Guests with bags larger than 4 inches by 6 inches are required to be screened through X-ray machines.
Disengaged operators take shortcuts and postpone investments, perpetuating the cycle that strains corporate cash flow.
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Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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.
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