as in winnowed (out)
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Adjective
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The Red Wings tied it with 59 seconds left in the period on Seider's shot from near the blue line that eluded a screened Hildeby.—
CBS News, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
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My eyes scanned the crowd for Leo.—
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The State Election Board later concluded last year that Fulton County likely scanned more than 3,000 ballots twice during the recount.—
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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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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.—
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And while Connecticut’s chief fiscal watchdog didn’t call for changing state budget caps that hamper the General Assembly’s ability to solve the Medicaid dilemma, Scanlon said all solutions need to be reviewed.—
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Researchers then examined liver immune cells to determine how their DNA activity was regulated and measured levels of a key receptor.—
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Papers had been presented, models dissected, scenarios examined.—
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“Picked over.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/picked%20over. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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