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[fil-ter] / ˈfɪl tər /


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Messi trusts the people who run them, some of them with him since his early days at Barcelona, and a thorough filter means he only gets offered and chooses what he is comfortable with.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

For example, the agents circumvented a filter on the website that was blocking their requests for data, she said, ultimately using a technique that the website operators didn’t permit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Meta has denied the allegations in the lawsuit and says it has taken “steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people’s privacy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Higher prices for a barrel of oil take time to filter down to retail gas prices, but a look at the oil market’s “prompt spread” shows bigger gas bills look likely.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

We contextualize, filter, draw conclusions, and make inferences, in part, based on someone’s physical attributes.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“No staff filters, no bureaucratic dilution — a direct line to the secretary,” Hegseth said.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

It will also strengthen age verification, ban beauty filters for teenagers, and offer young users a non-personalized content feed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

The filters clog at low speeds or cold temperatures; burner units pack up; the sensors break constantly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

On Saturday evening, engineers turned their attention to the element wheel, which contains filters, prisms, and other optical components.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

He walked down to Waterworks Park, amazed that the Americans had built such a palace to house plumbing filters and intake valves.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

From there, medbeds filtered out to the rest of the secret-space-program community and to other alternative subcultures, including the New Age world.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

“They came through the stereo, speaking loudly into my ear, filtered through the added beauty of a child’s brain taking that all in.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Tim Andrews said the transplant gave him "hope" and spared him months of needing to go to hospital to have his blood filtered by a dialysis machine.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Cross polarized light microscopy uses specially filtered light to reveal structures that may be difficult to see with ordinary microscopy.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Beside her, Ekon was staring up at the canopy of trees, now allowing filtered light to shine through.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

I realized I was nervous and not filtering my words very well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet when it comes to the ways AI is filtering into Americans’ jobs, many workers are looking at a trickle so far, rather than a flood.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

While government measures have softened the hit from surging oil costs, policymakers expect higher energy prices to start filtering through to a wider array of consumer goods over the summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

According to the researchers, this imbalance could increase pressure inside the filtering structures and potentially contribute to continued kidney damage.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

Perhaps it was the sunlight filtering in, but there was a strange beauty captured in them, a special care.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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