WINNOWED Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

winnowed

verb

past tense of winnow

as in culled

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 winnowed The leadership of the AI trade has been winnowed down to Alphabet along with memory stocks and the energy/electrification infrastructure suppliers, which are exploiting product scarcity to impose a quasi-tax on the builders. —

Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 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 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 Finally, Thoreau winnowed once again, translating some, but not all, of the list items to his charts of general phenomena, and carefully noting the dates on which each phenomenon occurred in the spaces of the grid. —

Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025 These associates would then be winnowed out over time. —

Atta Tarki, Harvard Business Review, 2 Oct. 2025 West Point cancelled an award ceremony for Tom Hanks, after having already winnowed its library of potentially offensive books. —

Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025 The museum has closed and the entire Klairmont collection — which in recent years was winnowed down to 284 cars — will be sold by Mecum Auctions. —

Nina Metz, Boston Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 Overnight, this winnowed the field. —

Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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Some of the imagery seen by Ferreira’s character is genuine content culled from online, carefully trimmed.

— Mark Olsen, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
Some of the imagery seen by Ferreira’s character is genuine content culled from online, carefully trimmed.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026