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In this episode of WWD Voices, Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio, chats with Caroline Weaver, small business expert and founder of The Locavore Guide — a searchable, filterable, online database of 14,000 independent stores in New York City.
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Lauren Parker, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
It’s all showcased in an easy-to-understand, filterable computer dashboard that’s customizable by region, timeline, and specific crop.
—Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
In 1901, American researchers studying yellow fever in Cuba concluded that the disease carried by mosquitoes was caused by something small enough to be filterable, too.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
In 1898, the same year as Beijerinck’s work was published, foot-and-mouth disease in cattle became the first animal illness linked to a filterable agent, or a microbe small enough to pass through a porcelain filter.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
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Lauren Parker, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
It’s all showcased in an easy-to-understand, filterable computer dashboard that’s customizable by region, timeline, and specific crop.
—Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
In 1901, American researchers studying yellow fever in Cuba concluded that the disease carried by mosquitoes was caused by something small enough to be filterable, too.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
In 1898, the same year as Beijerinck’s work was published, foot-and-mouth disease in cattle became the first animal illness linked to a filterable agent, or a microbe small enough to pass through a porcelain filter.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020
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“Filterable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filterable. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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filterable
adjective
fil·ter·able
variants
also filtrable
: capable of being separated by or of passing through a filter
Medical Definition
filterable
adjective
fil·ter·able
variants
also filtrable
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