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Kelly pulls out his phone to show me a video of a woman whose account is dedicated to sharing puzzling life advice while she appears under an extreme beauty filter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Its Coronagraph Instrument will block and filter the light from stars so astronomers can study exoplanets and disks around them.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
By pinning structural failures of U.S. health infrastructure onto a single doctor, both supporters and critics can selectively filter for what they already believe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Gas prices filter through to everything, but especially food,” Owens said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The infrared filter was messing with his depth perception and he’d whacked his head on two protruding U-bends so far.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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Like counts would be hidden by default and cosmetic surgery filters barred.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Snapchat filters and images shared in group chats suggest that many teenagers - and those not so young - are simply having harmless fun with the trend.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Singapore inflation figures on Monday will likely show that price growth accelerated in July as the energy shock filters through.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Depending on the situation, it filters out some information while giving greater attention to signals that are more relevant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The air filters cycle on, making a low hum beneath the sound of the fan.
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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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
Swiss GDP last contracted in the third quarter of 2025, as the first round of U.S. tariffs filtered through the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
And the gains filtered through to Asia, with Tokyo climbing two percent thanks to healthy advances for Kioxia, Tokyo Electron and Advantest.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Together, these tools automatically filtered vast amounts of data before researchers performed additional analysis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
I dropped my decommissioned backpack on the kitchen table and filled the kettle from the pitcher of filtered water I kept on the counter.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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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
One way employees have used their AI agents is to manage their inbox: summarizing emails, filtering out spam messages and automatically drafting responses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
DCCBs may relax the blood vessels that carry blood into these filtering units more strongly than they affect the vessels carrying blood away.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
Parts of the forest were quite heavy, but in other parts you could see the komorebi—the sunlight filtering through the trees.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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