SIFTS Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

sifts

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present tense third-person singular of sift

as in filters

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Water filters This pitcher uses Advanced Carbon Core Technology filters to remove up to three times as many contaminants as standard filters.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026
Users decide which filters to use, browse hundreds of listings, and manually determine which jobs might be relevant.

— William Jones, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026

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Robert Pozen, who lectures at MIT Sloan School of Management and was formerly president of Fidelity Investments, has an answer to the obvious question about who inspects this.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026
The leading theory is that the Grok filtering guardrail inspects text entering and leaving the model, but not the output of its own code execution.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2026

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In years past, only a handful of divers have been permitted by the park to descend to the site where the plane’s aluminum body lays upholstered with colonies of invasive mussels.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Alarm bells are sounding in Chicago as another family lays a child to rest after an electric scooter collision.

— Narmeen Khan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

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University responds In a press release on Monday, the university said Delta Upsilon was placed on interim suspension while the Office of Student Accountability and Conflict Response investigates.

— Michael Guise, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Penn State University said in a news release that the university is placing Delta Upsilon on interim suspension while the college investigates the incident.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of investigates

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Veteran director-producer Marc Turtletaub returns to feature filmmaking this year with Borges and Me, which screens this weekend in one of the primetime Out of Competition spots at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026
Coincidentally, Sumit runs Cancer Check Labs, a charity and business that screens firefighters for cancer risks associated with their profession.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of screens

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The Russia and Ukraine conflict grinds into a fifth year; a new Fed chair settles in while tariff policy whipsaws through the courts; tensions with allies and adversaries alike continue to flare.

— Nigel Morris, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
The deal settles any claims over Suno’s prior use of BMG’s music in training data.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2026

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