sieve

verb

Definition of sievenext
as in to filter

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Recent Examples of sieve After sufficient brewing time, pour the tea into the pitcher through a fine mesh filter or sieve to remove the loose leaves or take out and throw out the whole tea bags. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 Creativity is not just some commodity, trapped in the imagination, that can be tapped and sieved by technology. — John Semley, Wired News, 1 Apr. 2026 The mixture is then sieved to produce a smooth, drinkable liquid. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026 The combine then automatically calibrates variables like rotor speed, fan speed and sieve clearances to produce those outcomes. — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026 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. — 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
  1. filter
  2. sift
  3. screen
  4. strain
Verb
  • Kansas City artists, comedians, entrepreneurs and other figures from the city’s nightlife scene filtered through the business, including people who had shared stages, studios and social spaces with McGee.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The liver just might be one of your hardest-working organs, producing proteins and filtering the blood, metabolizing nutrients and creating necessary bile for digestion.
    — Alexandra Frost, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of filter
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  • But the fire this time was started by a son, which led to raging misfortunes that consumed his three brothers one by one, leaving only ashen memories for his surviving sister and aged parents to sift through.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Every week, someone had to physically retrieve the cards, download the images, and sift through them by hand — a process that could take weeks or even months.
    — Laurie Mermet, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of sift
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  • The author, who appears in the series and serves as a consulting producer, took part in a panel discussion of Monsters of God Thursday night after HBO screened episode 1 at Vidiots in Los Angeles.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Her latest film as a director-plus-actress, The Invite, is scheduled to screen in the Swiss town’s big central square, the Piazza Grande, on Saturday evening.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of screen
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  • In Hungary too, where the heat crisis is severely straining the country’s energy supply, the receding water levels of the Danube River exposed several bombs, likely from World War II, a local official said last week.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • By Malloy’s second year, annual pension expenses were almost 70% greater than pre-recession levels, further straining a budget that already had lost close to $2 billion in yearly revenue due to a sagging economy.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
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