sieve
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Note: If the ricotta seems especially wet, drain it in a fine-mesh sieve before whipping.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"It was filthy, dirty and it leaked like a sieve for many years," he said in a White House video about the plan.
From Barron's ● Apr. 25, 2026
The average American home is about as airtight and well-insulated as a metal sieve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Yoakam’s “Greater Bakersfield” is the sieve through which much of “Brighter Days” filtered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024
When she was done grinding the unusual ingredient, she spooned its fine white particles into a miniature sieve and dusted the top of four freshly baked pies with it.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Citizen scientists will then be encouraged to gather sediment from rooftops and gutters and use magnets, sieves, and microscopes provided by the project to isolate potential micrometeorites.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
To save the gobies from that fate, scientists and citizen volunteers arrived on Jan. 17 and used giant nets that served as sieves to retrieve the fish that rarely exceed a length of two inches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
It’s about scoring, flair, finesse, getting to open space and making the world’s best goaltenders sometimes look like sieves.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Human beings do not exist in vacuums; we are sieves for the experiences, cultures and socioeconomic systems that entrap us.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2019
“We shoveled gravel through sieves for seven full hours with a half-hour break for lunch.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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The fermented BSG is then dried, ground into a powder, sieved, and spun in a centrifuge to separate the protein, which would float to the top from the rest of the mixture.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
In 1962 Heinz Stolp, a researcher in Berlin, was searching for new viruses when he ran out of the filters that sieved them from his samples.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 5, 2022
Other condiments shunned by connoisseurs but enjoyed by many are sieved egg yolks, finely chopped egg whites, and minced onion or fresh-snipped chives.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
A carpet of hard-boiled eggs is strewn across the top, the whites and yolks sieved separately.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2018
The hole was a perfectly symmetrical inverted cone whose sides were smooth, as though finely sieved and raked.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The successful sieving of the fuel molecules is achieved via selective proton transfers due to steric hindrance on holey graphene sheets that have chemical functionalization and act as proton-exchange membranes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2022
“Children recognize sand as a creative material suitable for pouring, scooping, sieving, raking, and measuring,” it said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
After sieving out the large particles, they filtered the water to collect the eDNA.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2021
The stirring, sieving, settling, and bailing were repeated any number of times, until Min was satisfied with the residue.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
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