sift

In the U.S., law-enforcement officials have tied Chinese actors to breaches involving hundreds of millions of records—a haul of intelligence even a bureaucracy as massive as China’s would struggle to sift.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

With record youth unemployment and vacancies half what they were in recent years employers are increasingly turning to AI to sift through the huge volume of applications and favouring online interviews over in person.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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

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

He sifts through long-forgotten memoirs, archives and personal papers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026

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

Times BuzzMeter panel sifts through several crowded fields in our roundup of the supporting categories for comedy and drama series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

He sifts through the pile of blueprints, checking labels and dates.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Villagers living nearby have long sifted through the mine’s waste rock hunting for overlooked gold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

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

The crash site was cordoned off for 2 days as they took photographs from every possible angle, including the air, and sifted through the wreckage.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Best the Wafles can tell after sifting through family documents last year, Ferris Wafle had just begun playing at William & Mary in 1928, as an offensive and defensive lineman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Telegram channels -- sifting through intelligence data -- close the information gap, putting out daily forecasts on the probability of different types of attacks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 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

Arthur and Guenever, like good children, sat with their hands in their laps to listen to the stories. like children, they wen alert and eager, sifting the truth as best they could.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White