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With record youth unemployment and vacancies half what they were in recent years employers are increasingly turning to AI to sift through the huge volume of applications and favouring online interviews over in person.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

She remembers scooping up what remained of her artwork and watching it sift through her fingers, the porcelain broken and changed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Mr. Burnham’s problems sift into two categories, “U-turn” and “huh?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Just add water, sift in your matcha and run the matcha cycle.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

Her hands, small and fine, sift through jars of spices as she prepares lunch.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

AI sifts through tens of millions of records of data for marketers, who then create AI agents that carry out complex marketing tasks.

From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026

An artificial intelligence system donated by Microsoft then sifts through the millions of records to pull up relevant documents at 21 different stations throughout the exhibit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

She is talking about her late husband's former employer as she sifts through a pile of letters from his pension company.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

All day, he sifts sand and hauls broken bricks, halting at nightfall: Batteries for LED lights are too scarce and expensive to keep working into the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

As for me, I sit in the sand, enjoying the gritty feeling as it sifts through my wriggling toes.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

However when the team sifted through their data, they found that at certain wavelengths, the object's light simply disappeared.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

In an abandoned luxury apartment in the Syrian capital Damascus, armed men dressed in military fatigues sifted through designer clothes and documents.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Then they sifted through each potential match to trace the two whales' journey across the world.

From Barron's ● May 20, 2026

On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

One morning I sifted a whole sack of flour, and the next day my hands were too sore to grip my pencil and write in my Notebook.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

They are getting better at sifting data into meaningful signals and meaningless noise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

From her London base, she is up by 2 a.m. most days, calling locals and sifting through data to find companies ripe for a shake up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

Its green lawn, which used to be perfectly manicured, is now a makeshift hospital and donation centre, where residents who have lost everything are sifting through piles of donated clothing and boxes of humanitarian aid.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

“You’re sifting through a bunch of profiles. It’s really hard to understand and find somebody that’s compatible for you based on your specific types of preferences,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

That night, we sat for hours, munching on peanuts, sifting through the pieces spread out on the kitchen table.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett