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As the job market cools, they are both raising the bar for entry-level jobs and seeking more consistent criteria to winnow the candidate pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

If she does enter the contest, the move is expected to winnow the field because of her national profile, fundraising ability and her multiple successful statewide campaigns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025

The point of the process is to winnow the field to a manageable size, and winnowed the field was.

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2024

While she said it’s not her place to suggest others drop out of the race, Reynolds said Iowa’s role in the nominating process is to start to winnow the field, which will happen naturally.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

How was she to winnow down her countless questions to a mere troika?

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Then the RNA winnows the contending olfactory-receptor genes down to one.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2023

And while his company’s software winnows candidates, Mr. Garg emphasizes that it is meant to be a helper.

From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

It progressively winnows out starlight, and stacks frame after frame to allow any faint planetary light to accumulate and eventually be seen.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 10, 2021

Brant was one of those Goldberg wanted to serve; a team of 100 readers winnows down the submissions, but she makes the final determinations.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2019

It winnows through the stones as we watch, bubbling into the undeserving earth.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

A hamstring injury to KeAndre Lambert-Smith further winnowed the Chargers’ receiving options.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

His contact with his mother winnowed for a few years, though they are now reconnected; his father, Iranian folk musician Hadi Montazeri, remained in close contact, sending his sons weekly groceries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

What’s the point of watching a game that can be winnowed down to a series of inputs and outputs?

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Per the Hollywood Reporter, Merit’s measly weekly viewer numbers soon winnowed down further, to 17,000.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025

His teeth were winnowed away by a vexatious Grisha, and now he can eat only pudding.”

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

While most of that came from leaving foreign markets, the winnowing has also reached Whirlpool’s refrigerator plant in Amana, Iowa, which has gone from about 3,000 jobs to 650.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Maybe at peak valuations these stocks were trading on a price-earnings multiples of 30-40 times, Lapping observes, but not after the winnowing caused by AI fears:

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The winnowing of victims has been the result of byzantine legal procedures, strict vetting and tightened eligibility rules, which victims told ProPublica and the Inquirer took them by surprise.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Ask DePetro why someone might prefer his content to the nightly news, and he’ll gesture toward the rapidly winnowing media industry.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

“May it be mine,” the reaper prays, “beside Demeter’s altar to dig the great winnowing fan through her heaps of corn, while she stands smiling by with sheaves and poppies in her hand.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton