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Recent Examples of sieve
After sufficient brewing time, pour the tea into the pitcher through a fine mesh filter or sieve to remove the loose leaves or take out and throw out the whole tea bags.
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.
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Raven Smith,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Bestreviews,
Mercury News,
19 June 2026
Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit.
—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
9 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sieve
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Diseases that damage the kidneys and impair their ability to filter blood were blamed for 55,081 deaths in 2024.
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Afternoon sun floods through the windows, filtered by gauzy curtains.
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For Warsh, all of these data points, plus others from various agencies, present a complicated mosaic that his task forces will have to sift through.
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Then, aided by technology and evolving search parameters, police sift through for potential suspects.
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Other schools opted to use the grant funds to upgrade their visitor management platforms, which screens guests who enter the buildings.
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Riders are screened before competitions and anyone considered too inexperienced is denied entry.
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The inconsistency in messaging raises further doubts that negotiators can meet their 60-day deadline after the two sides traded attacks over the weekend, straining their already fragile ceasefire.
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Meanwhile the servers strain under the weight of AI companies scraping the encyclopedia in bulk, on a roughly $180 million annual budget funded mostly by donations of between two and eleven dollars.
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“Sieve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sieve. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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