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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sifted
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The war felt far away then—an abstraction to analyze—its consequences filtered through spreadsheets and financial models.—
Pandu Sjahrir,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026 -
The department, aided by the hiring of a new state superintendent in November 2013, began to take a more active role than in the past in marshaling resources, support, and administrative authority to make sure the changes embodied in law actually filtered down to students in the classroom.—
Rachel Canter,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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For SpaceX, these are the only pieces of the Falcon 9 and Starship that haven’t been recovered, inspected, and reused.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
19 Apr. 2026
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In a meeting with city officials on Friday, the activists demanded that searches be carried out without interruption until the site is fully inspected.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 Apr. 2026
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These are the 15th and 16th homicides of the year investigated by OPD.—
Sierra Lopez,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
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District officials were notified in January that Francis was being federally investigated.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Apr. 2026
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For the entire day, movies were screened, the titles of which have been lost to time.—
Savannah Sicurella,
AJC.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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Kempner, who has screened her film for Black and Jewish audiences, thinks the current commemorative efforts are long overdue.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Apr. 2026
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The evaluation puts dust events on par with natural disasters in terms of economic costs, eclipsing, for example, the 2017 wildfire season but shy of that year’s hurricane season, according to Irene Feng, the lead author of the 2024 study, who researched dust at the University of Texas at El Paso.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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Her book—only the third to be published on Somali cuisine since 1978—provides a detailed overview of her home country’s history, pays homage to the chefs and writers who came before her, and intersperses thoroughly researched essays about the Somali diaspora.—
Jamie Feldmar,
Saveur,
15 Apr. 2026
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The Federal Trade Commission has studied surveillance pricing methods since 2024, and found retailers often used people’s personal information to set individualized pricing information.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
21 Apr. 2026
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Though his family is Ashkenazi, Cohen didn’t grow up speaking Yiddish — his father studied at Berkeley, his mother at the London School of Economics — and his accent bears little trace of his origins.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Sifted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sifted. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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