sift

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

In “Baldwin Street” Mr. Gowin and his wife share memories and sift through photos of their family in a conversation that is woven through the collection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

For the next hour or so, the volunteers sift through the seagrass as it lays flat on the shore.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Just add water, sift in your matcha and run the matcha cycle.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

I walked over to the sink and leaned down to open the cupboard and sift through the fancy plates and serving dishes.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed

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

Yet from that painful personal source emerges something unfortunately indistinct, as though softly blanketed by the snow that sifts slowly down during this holiday drama.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

All day, he sifts sand and hauls broken bricks, halting at nightfall: Batteries for LED lights are too scarce and expensive to keep working into the darkness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025

Beyond the carton-covered window, rain sifts down from a platinum-colored sky.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

In an abandoned luxury apartment in the Syrian capital Damascus, armed men dressed in military fatigues sifted through designer clothes and documents.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

AFP footage from the site showed a huge crater in the ground, next to which dozens of Palestinians sifted through what appeared to be medical supplies that had been scattered by the blast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

On Sunday afternoon, shoppers browsed for fishing poles and sifted through a wide array of camouflage hunting gear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026

The jury sifted through 57,376 photographs from 3,747 photojournalists to select 45 prize-winning shots from around the world.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

So the old woman vowed by all the gods, and vowed again, to carry out his wishes; then she filled up the amphorai with wine and sifted barley meal into leather bags.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

AI-driven answers culled from sifting information in large language models might lack important context or fail to interpret it correctly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Other images showed rescue workers with flashlights sifting through rubble.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

They are getting better at sifting data into meaningful signals and meaningless noise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026

“You’re sifting through a bunch of profiles. It’s really hard to understand and find somebody that’s compatible for you based on your specific types of preferences,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026

When Florida heard Dallas moving around, she unwrapped her head and blinked at the soft gray light sifting down through a gap in the leaves overhead.

From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech