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Recent Examples of sift
Until the turn of the past century, the tools were indispensable in Ecuadorian kitchens, where they were primarily used to sift flour.
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ABC News,
9 June 2026
The department has contracted with Peregrine Technologies, which promises to sift through police data and publicly available information such as team practice locations and the country affiliation of popular bars, to get ahead of possible conflict.
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Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
To sift through all of those applications, companies are turning, again, to AI.
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Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2026
There are also programs to help you with social listening, automate surveys for audience feedback and sift through comments on your posts.
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John Hall,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for sift
ABC News,
9 June 2026
The department has contracted with Peregrine Technologies, which promises to sift through police data and publicly available information such as team practice locations and the country affiliation of popular bars, to get ahead of possible conflict.
—
Jake Offenhartz,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
To sift through all of those applications, companies are turning, again, to AI.
—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
2 June 2026
There are also programs to help you with social listening, automate surveys for audience feedback and sift through comments on your posts.
—
John Hall,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for sift
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Selective attention is the way your brain focuses on important information while filtering out unnecessary information.
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Borehole water is filtered through a reverse-osmosis system, eliminating the need for plastic bottles.
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The race was red-flagged, so crews could clean up the mess and inspect the barriers.
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In one Zooniverse project related to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, volunteers will visually inspect and annotate 2D slitless spectroscopic images from the telescope to observe the redshift of millions of galaxies — the main method used for measuring the expansion of the universe.
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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.
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Creativity is not just some commodity, trapped in the imagination, that can be tapped and sieved by technology.
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Police are investigating after a man was found dead underwater Saturday afternoon in Lauderhill.
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Counterterrorism police in Edinburgh are investigating a series of late-night street attacks that left five men injured.
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The United States’ war with Iran, costly in all the profound ways that war is, also laid the groundwork for an uneven — and possibly precedent-setting — playing field.
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The City’s Racial Equity Preliminary Plan lays bare the structural, exclusionary policies that have locked communities of color out of wealth-building for generations.
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Link to earlier discovery The new findings come less than a year after Perseverance examined a rock called Cheyava Falls, which scientists described as one of the most intriguing samples collected on Mars.
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Take a couple of minutes to examine one testicle at a time.
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Yet screening is not one-size-fits-all.
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The toxicology screens for some of the deceased revealed both kratom and 7-OH, leading to a countywide crackdown of products with either compound because they’re unregulated.
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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