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Recent Examples of sift
This is essentially asking a federal judge to sift into different buckets that which is federal power and that which is state power.
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Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
Research communities have always had to sift out some junk on preprint servers, but this practice makes sense only when the signal-to-noise ratio is high.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Researchers sift through that data, and by Monday nights, Schwartzstein receives a packet of information that studies for teams’ tendencies on first-and-10, third down, in the red zone and in short-yardage situations.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
Errant crumbs can sift through the basket, resulting in burning and more mess.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
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Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 26 Jan. 2026
Research communities have always had to sift out some junk on preprint servers, but this practice makes sense only when the signal-to-noise ratio is high.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Researchers sift through that data, and by Monday nights, Schwartzstein receives a packet of information that studies for teams’ tendencies on first-and-10, third down, in the red zone and in short-yardage situations.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Jan. 2026
Errant crumbs can sift through the basket, resulting in burning and more mess.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Vogue is committed to reporting and riffing on the global fashion conversation—always filtered through the lens of culture and what’s happening in the world at large.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
1 Feb. 2026
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The neighborhood/area Uptown Sedona sits just above L’Auberge, keeping guests sheltered from traffic and tourists, but construction noise from buildings along 89A can filter down to the rooms.—
Asonta Benetti,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Jan. 2026
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Echard’s intervention operates in direct contrast to this ethos, necessitating a pilgrimage to the top of a parking lot in Toulouse, away from most human activity, to inspect the networks of modern-day communication itself.—
Theo Belci,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
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After driving through the first security checkpoint, a second guard inspects her rental car and verifies her ID.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
31 Jan. 2026
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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
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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
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The city’s Mayor Brandon Johnson on Saturday signed an executive order directing city police to investigate and document alleged misconduct by federal immigration officers with an eye toward prosecution.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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Under the agreement, the Homeland Security money will continue at current levels for two weeks while lawmakers consider Democratic demands to unmask agents, require more warrants and allow local authorities to help investigate any incidents.—
Mary Clare Jalonick,
Fortune,
31 Jan. 2026
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Calvert-Lewin’s travails with Everton are laid bare in that final column.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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And that equivocation should lay bare Strider’s personal opinion about the latest high-profile instance of ICE enforcement.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Kim Jee-woon’s A Bittersweet Life (2005) drew on the cool aesthetics of Jean-Pierre Melville’s gangster films while examining specifically Korean concepts of loyalty and social hierarchy.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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The researchers examined genetic markers linked to how the body processes sugar, then used a technique called Mendelian randomisation to compare disease rates in people who were genetically predisposed to higher blood glucose.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Using key indicators for medicinal value and rubber yield, scientists screened more than 50 elite Duzhong germplasms from across China and ran a systematic breeding programme, ultimately producing strains adapted to arid, desert conditions.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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For those with a family history of colon cancer, doctors say people should start screening at either age 40 or 10 years before the age a family member was diagnosed, whichever comes first.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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