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Recent Examples of sift
With 66 brands exhibiting at the world’s annual horological tradeshow in Geneva last week, there were a lot of novelties to sift through—and perhaps more covetable new references to try on, think about, and pick apart than ever before.
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Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
Volunteers helped sift through the splintered wood and jagged metal, and cleanup crews were clearing limbs from roads.
—Kendrick Calfee
updated April 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Curtains and Drapes When second-hand shopping expert PJ Gach worked at her local thrift store, her job was to sift through the donations and decide which ones were actually sellable.
—Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026
Spring is officially here, with its blue skies, gentle sunshine, and, as per usual, a bounty of new fragrance launches to sift through.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
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Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2026
Volunteers helped sift through the splintered wood and jagged metal, and cleanup crews were clearing limbs from roads.
—Kendrick Calfee
updated April 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Apr. 2026
Curtains and Drapes When second-hand shopping expert PJ Gach worked at her local thrift store, her job was to sift through the donations and decide which ones were actually sellable.
—Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 9 Apr. 2026
Spring is officially here, with its blue skies, gentle sunshine, and, as per usual, a bounty of new fragrance launches to sift through.
—Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Its crimson hue results from the the light filtering properties of Earth's atmosphere, which scatter the blue wavelengths of moonlight as the lunar disk sits close to the horizon, while allowing red wavelengths to pass through relatively unhindered.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
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Sometimes that battle is filtered through songs that sound like show tunes or gospel hymns.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
2 May 2026
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On the morning of January 24, 1848, Marshall walked to the river to inspect the mill, now the site of the park.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Test the alternator output, check the door ajar switch, and inspect the parking brake and brake fluid level.—
Hartford Courant,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
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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
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Customers who are familiar with her work locally will stand in long lines to get her goods, which often sell out quickly Huynh said Chaung’s taro cakes are made by steaming and sieving the purple Southeast Asian vegetable to make a mix into the dough.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 Feb. 2026
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No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.—
Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
2 May 2026
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Prosecutors investigated allegations that both her 2011 and 2016 campaigns had received undisclosed funds from the Brazilian company Odebrecht.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 May 2026
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Can college really be laid so bare and survive?—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2026
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The Yankees also honored Sterling, their play-by-play man from 1989-2024, with a pregame ceremony that included a video, a moment of silence, and bouquets of flowers, which were laid at home plate by former booth partners Suzyn Waldman and Michael Kay.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
5 May 2026
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The film examines the generation who never expected to become senior citizens in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and decades of oppression, who now find themselves trailblazers again as the first openly LGBTQ seniors.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
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Engineers will examine the capsule’s heat shield in more detail along with everything else in preparation for next year’s Artemis III docking demo in orbit around Earth.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm’s prescription-review tool, deployed across 200+ hospitals and screening millions of prescriptions monthly, illustrates both the value at stake and the scale at which a single failure mode would harm patients.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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No one’s sitting in the HR office at the Denver Zoo screening resumes at midnight.—
Michelle Dally,
Denver Post,
2 May 2026
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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