sifted

past tense of sift

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sifted
Verb
  • Raw honey is honey in its most unprocessed state and contains what would otherwise be filtered out or inactivated by heat, like antioxidants, enzymes, pollen, and microbes.
    Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Everything that a doctor does in The Pitt is filtered through how their character would practice medicine in that moment, and that’s a real skill in a big ensemble show.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Geryon who is metaphorically and perhaps in reality a monster is infatuated with Herakles, but the internal world of Geryon is so thoroughly inspected.
    Amber McBride, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • As the fireline is constructed, inspected or reinforced, mappers record those details to adjust the containment percentage.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Not a single case has been credibly and independently investigated.
    Scott Griffen, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The case was investigated by Michigan State Police.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The Truck world-premiered at Telluride, screened at MoMA, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Oscar-qualifying Florida Film Festival, and also won the best screenplay honor at Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The brothers have written and directed many shorts, including Out of Time, which screened at the Tokyo CON-CAN Movie Festival, Inside/Out, which played the Venice, Edinburgh, and Montreal Film Festivals, and Love Hate, which starred Ben Whishaw and Hayley Atwell.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • That call is all too real, according to Stephen Schwartz, an independent scholar who has extensively researched the history of America's nuclear command systems.
    Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It's well written and researched by Michael Glasgow and Phyllis Gobbell.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Early on, the larvae are very tiny and at the mercy of sea currents, explains Pruett, who has studied them in the lab.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers studied 1,591 individuals as part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a cohort that studied children born in 1997 and 1998 through age 23.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Sifted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sifted. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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