SIFTED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

sifted

verb

past tense of sift

as in filtered

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as in inspected

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As water moves through their gills, it is filtered for microscopic organisms that these mollusks then consume as food.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
That risks creating a different version of the same problem, where legitimate candidates get filtered out by systems that are also guessing at what is real.

— Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of filtered

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Jesús Méndez, his supervisor, inspected the boxes before they were loaded onto a truck with the tracking details.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
As a general industry guideline, tires should be inspected carefully after five years in service for hardening, cracks, cuts and flat spots.

— John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026

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Presently, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer that is caught early is over 99%, which is why Andrea says women who find a lump shouldn't wait to get screened.

— Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
In early 2017 a festival cut of Mandela’s Gun was requested by the speaker of the UK Houses of Parliament to be screened in honor of President Nelson Mandela in the Speakers State Rooms where Mandela had been in residence.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of screened

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Better make sure those interview questions are properly researched and up to snuff — or else there could be some real zingers flying in from the interviewee.

— Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2026
Alternative prostate cancer screening methods are currently being researched, including one that uses a non-invasive urine test, as Fox News Digital recently reported.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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