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Recent Examples of sift
A lot of confusion, as well as pressure, to sift through around what to do with your natural body hair—for both kids and parents.
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Liz Regalia, Parents, 27 Dec. 2025
Drizzle strained raspberry jam over the berries and sift powdered sugar over the whole dish.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
To overcome the challenge, the scientists used state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to sift through massive amounts of data, separating the elusive tWZ signal from background noise.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
In Talisay city, survivors sift through the destruction, hoping to salvage what little remains.
—CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
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Liz Regalia, Parents, 27 Dec. 2025
Drizzle strained raspberry jam over the berries and sift powdered sugar over the whole dish.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
To overcome the challenge, the scientists used state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to sift through massive amounts of data, separating the elusive tWZ signal from background noise.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
In Talisay city, survivors sift through the destruction, hoping to salvage what little remains.
—CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sift
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Fran Drescher’s skin looked so poreless and filtered at the Golden Globes thanks to the Double Take Liquid Foundation.—
Eva Thomas,
InStyle,
14 Jan. 2026
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If the recovering addicts’ primary task was to filter out women who wouldn’t qualify to sue—namely, those who didn’t have pelvic mesh or who did but weren’t in pain—Blake’s was to amp up the value of their lawsuits (and attorneys’ fees) by convincing them to have their mesh surgically removed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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The Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire in the early hours of New Year’s Day had not been inspected in five years, local authorities said Tuesday.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
6 Jan. 2026
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If your city isn’t listed, either no restaurants there were inspected that month, or none earned a perfect score.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
6 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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Minnesota officials have claimed federal authorities blocked state investigators from accessing evidence in the case and asserted that the state lacks jurisdiction to independently investigate the killing, according to the AP.—
Greg Wehner , Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Thai authorities are now investigating the incident, which follows a series of other fatal accidents which have been blamed on safty lapses, the BBC reported.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
14 Jan. 2026
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In an Old Florida twist, Brightline runs along some of the same railways that were knitted together by Henry Flagler in the late 19th and early 20th century—the ones that laid the groundwork for the state’s present-day tourism industry.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Buffalo, New York’s Anchor Bar has laid its claim to the most famous chicken wing in America, but as with many beloved creations, the history is not so linear.—
Matt Moore,
Southern Living,
13 Jan. 2026
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The last time those key engine mount parts were examined closely was in October 2021, and the plane wasn't due for another detailed inspection for roughly 7,000 more takeoffs and landings.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Operating at the Lower Manhattan docks, Melville’s task was to examine ship manifests against unloaded cargo.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Landman Season 2 actress has been busy supporting her fellow leading ladies, including hosting a Song Sung Blue screening alongside Kate Hudson on January 7 and a special Marty Supreme screening and conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow just hours later on January 9.—
Lara Walsh,
InStyle,
13 Jan. 2026
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The first two episodes of the series world premiered at the Venice Film Festival before also screening at the BFI London Film Festival.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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