WINNOW Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

winnow

verb

as in to cull

to remove less desirable choices from a group or list They winnowed the pool of applicants down to a few of the strongest candidates. I tried to winnow out the options that weren't a good value for the price.

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Recent Examples of winnow Is the only pleasure in her winnowing life to be denied? —

Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2026 The Minnesota Department of Transportation has winnowed thousands of submissions for its Name a Snowplow contest down to 30 finalists. —

Anthony Bettin, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026 All that standing and walking and winnowing down culminated with Tuesday night’s best in show event. —

Poupay Jutharat, Vogue, 4 Feb. 2026 After fermentation and toasting, the beans are winnowed and placed in a melanger, a stone grinder that runs for up to 72 to turn the beans into a velvety, smooth paste. —

Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for winnow

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The culling perfectly played into ongoing fears that AI automation is coming for white-collar jobs, a major job market and economic disruption that workers are becoming increasingly worried about — and which clearly has execs salivating.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
Many of these models are trained on stupendously large datasets comprising material culled from online sources, from which broader statistical patterns can be extracted and discerned.

— Patrick R. Crowley, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026