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“Hey Siri, play that song Eric texted me about” prompted the assistant to sift through messages to find the requested track, then play the Bad Bunny song with lyrics highlighted on screen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

It led his team to sift colonial-era archives and convince families to share fragile letters revealing ugly histories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Rescue teams and family members continue to sift through the rubble in search of victims and loved ones, with nearly 17,000 people injured in the tremors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 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

There was no time to carefully sift through our prized possessions or to label neatly packed boxes.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

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

Meticulous in his habits and wedded to his routines, George loves the sterile formality of the police interview room, where, unmoved by the emotional outbursts of others, he patiently sifts fact from fabrication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

The Policy Lab sifts through all that data, evaluating some 500 markers to generate a list of individuals and families that its model predicts to be at high risk of becoming homeless.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

Patti sifts bright orange lentils with her fingers before she buys some.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

Agents sifted through hundreds of thousands of records seized during Kao’s arrest and found that many were consistent with his account of widespread influence peddling.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The mud in the pit is sifted and shovelled.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

A Los Angeles Fire Department crew sifted through rubble on the property and found a wedding ring, along with other precious belongings, authorities said in a news release.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

As Hanse sifted through archives, he soon made a surprising discovery: rare aerial photographs of Aronimink’s early days that diverged from old drawings of the grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Nasreen Baji sifted through the different saris and picked three.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

Instead, it was a layered cake made from whipping butter and sugar until it was frothy and then sifting in the dry ingredients.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

Others carry the earth to a nearby seasonal river, where mostly women crouch in the murky water, washing and sifting mud and sand hoping to detect a tiny trace of the element.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

Other images showed rescue workers with flashlights sifting through rubble.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 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

Fine blurs of mist were sifting gently across the still, lavender surface.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols