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Recent Examples of sieve
Stock screens Morgan Stanley did a few stock screens to sieve out those set to benefit.
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Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
To sieve only the sound of a performance is to miss out on a world of visual and atmospheric cues, from body language to lighting to set design, not to mention audience reaction.
—Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristina A. Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
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Weizhen Tan, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2024
The sieving methods cannot be generalized so far as to push the result down to N = 2, however.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
To sieve only the sound of a performance is to miss out on a world of visual and atmospheric cues, from body language to lighting to set design, not to mention audience reaction.
—Rhoda Feng, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving.
—Kristina A. Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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Then, just a few days before the first batch of players were due to report for pre-season training, the first reports started to filter through that something terrible had happened, more than 1,000 miles away, in the middle of the night.—
Daniel Taylor,
New York Times,
4 July 2025
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Lessons from the Ukrainian battlefields have even filtered down into their training.—
James Brooks,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer campripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.—
Brit Morse,
Fortune,
7 July 2025
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Detectives sifted through years of social media posts, noticing the growing tension between Skylar and her friends.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
6 July 2025
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For example, a financial institution's agreement with clients may remove its obligation to actively screen payments in favor of faster payment processing, a convenience many businesses seek.—
Sunny Banerjee,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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To explore whether our gut microbes could help mop up these chemicals after entering the body, researchers at the University of Cambridge screened 38 potential candidates for their ability to soak up PFAS.—
Jay Kakade
July 12,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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The ordeal has strained their relationship, Nations said.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
11 July 2025
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The threat could further strain South Africa’s economy.—
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CNBC,
9 July 2025
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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