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Recent Examples of sift
Crews vacuumed them up straight into a special truck and sifted through dirt by hand to get every last one.
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
With help from a few contributors, testers, and dermatologists, our editors have sifted through dozens of SPF products, narrowing down which formulas are truly the best for dark skin.
—Danielle Jackson, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Investors also sifted through earnings from a packed slate of companies on Wednesday, including AT&T (T), which rose 0.9% after beating Wall Street expectations.
—Kevin Ryan, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, sift together flour and 3/4 cup of the sugar.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
With help from a few contributors, testers, and dermatologists, our editors have sifted through dozens of SPF products, narrowing down which formulas are truly the best for dark skin.
—Danielle Jackson, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Investors also sifted through earnings from a packed slate of companies on Wednesday, including AT&T (T), which rose 0.9% after beating Wall Street expectations.
—Kevin Ryan, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2025
Meanwhile, sift together flour and 3/4 cup of the sugar.
—Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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When news about Alhurra filtered out — along with talk that even MBN might shut down — many observers saw it as an own goal, a misguided rollback of U.S. soft power in the Middle East.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2025
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Sunlight filters through the kelp canopy, turning the water into stained glass, a masterpiece in motion.—
Avery Schuyler Nunn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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With more than 15,000 employees remaining across various U.S. and foreign offices, the FDA’s core responsibilities are reviewing new drugs, medical products and food ingredients as well as inspecting thousands of factories.—
Matthew Perrone,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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Workers inspect cars at the end of the production line of the Volvo factory in Ghent on April 25, 2025.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
1 May 2025
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Later, Meghan scrapes the honey off the hive frame, clearly in awe of the whole process, and sieves it to get rid of the honeycomb.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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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.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Butte County District Attorney’s Office, the county’s Officer Involved Shooting Protocol Team and the state Department of Justice were investigating the incident.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
10 May 2025
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An electrical tower that was being removed to investigate the source of the Eaton fire was damaged while being lifted by a helicopter.—
Salvador Hernandez,
Los Angeles Times,
9 May 2025
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The study also examined the likelihood of atypical handedness in clinical populations, or groups of people diagnosed with a specific set of health conditions compared to a control population.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
10 May 2025
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Meanwhile, Pluto stationed retrograde on the same day, shaking things up in your immediate environment, forcing you to examine your communication style and perspective, as you could be stuck in old patterns of thinking.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
9 May 2025
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The film has screened more than 20 times in the past three months, including at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacbee.com,
17 May 2025
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None of them have a real market while Toronto is the only one that screens the best from the fall festivals.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
16 May 2025
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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