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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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Automatic-translation technology, by design, filters out that surplus as noise.—
Ross Benjamin,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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Like all of Jack Daniel’s whiskey, it was filtered through charcoal before barreling, part of the Lincoln County process, but only through three feet instead of the usual 10 feet according to Fletcher (there’s less corn in the mashbill, and therefore less oil to be absorbed).—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
9 Nov. 2025
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To overcome the challenge, the scientists used state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to sift through massive amounts of data, separating the elusive tWZ signal from background noise.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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In Talisay city, survivors sift through the destruction, hoping to salvage what little remains.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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These input filters are designed to screen incoming user queries and prompts for harmful, leading, or manipulative language.—
TIME Staff,
Time,
10 Nov. 2025
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The series finale, which will now screen in select theaters nationwide and stream on Netflix simultaneously beginning New Year's Eve, runs around 2 hours in length.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Nov. 2025
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The pause grants the White House more time to argue its case against the mandate, which critics say could have strained federal resources, while supporters viewed it as essential to safeguarding food security for millions of low-income Americans.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Hundreds of flights across the United States are delayed or canceled today as the ongoing federal government shutdown continues to strain air travel operations.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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