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Recent Examples of sift
A lot of confusion, as well as pressure, to sift through around what to do with your natural body hair—for both kids and parents.
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Liz Regalia, Parents, 27 Dec. 2025
Drizzle strained raspberry jam over the berries and sift powdered sugar over the whole dish.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2025
To overcome the challenge, the scientists used state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to sift through massive amounts of data, separating the elusive tWZ signal from background noise.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
In Talisay city, survivors sift through the destruction, hoping to salvage what little remains.
—CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
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For a subtle but meaningful change, this set of floral sheer curtains from Kelly Clarkson adds a romantic touch to any room while filtering light.—
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Reports began to filter in that insurrectionists, some of whom were believed to be armed and on a mission to kill, had breached the Capitol.—
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The Swiss bar hit by a deadly fire in the early hours of New Year’s Day had not been inspected in five years, local authorities said Tuesday.—
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If your city isn’t listed, either no restaurants there were inspected that month, or none earned a perfect score.—
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Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.—
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These recordings function like a kind of filter or sieve, retaining one part of us while the rest is allowed to drain away.—
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Miami Gardens police started investigating the incident New Year’s Day after the neighbor reported the shots fired on the 17000 block of Northwest 27th Avenue, an arrest affidavit said.—
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The Columbus Division of Police is investigating the matter as a double homicide and not murder-suicide, WSYX and CNN reported.—
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That research laid the foundation for studying blood-loss control.—
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The half-zip can be worn unzipped with the collar laid flat, or zipped up and worn as a funnel neck collar.—
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The hour-long discussion will examine current trends in infant mortality, explore medical, environmental, and policy-related factors that may influence outcomes, and address the critical questions parents and policymakers are asking about protecting the health of infants and young children.—
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Another way to check for ripeness is by examining the seeds.—
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Since then, the film has won awards at multiple festivals across the country, and screened in cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.—
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In 2019, a 4K restoration screened at the 69th Berlin Film Festival, with Tarr’s approval.—
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“Sift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sift. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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