filtering

Example Sentences

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Filtering out dating cheats was also behind the creation of Cherry dating.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Filtering those traces from soil, air or water paints a picture of what has passed through.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

Filtering the internet is a cat-and-mouse game between the censor and the anti-censorship service provider.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2022

Filtering it through this fable — here's a dark and stormy night and he drives a woman home, and he is self-professed "a good guy," and makes claims, "Oh, should I even come in?"

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2022

The Ubiquity of Filtering and Coincidence Broadly understood, the study of filtering is nothing less than the study of psychology.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos