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• v  move as if through a sieve
  The soldiers sifted through the woods
• v  separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
  sift the flour
• v  check and sort carefully
  sift the information
• v  distinguish and separate out
  sift through the job candidates

• With preconceived notions about the outcome of an experiment, they generate reams of data from tests that are not rigidly controlled and then sift through the data to find .
• Search continues to grow in importance as we sift through the mountain of information available to us.
• Fashionistas with no time for real window-shopping can fire up their browser windows and sift through the racks at Net-a-Porter instead.

• sieve
• strain

News & Articles

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• Shirley board seats administrator review committee
  SHIRLEY -- Selectmen Monday night appointed a five-member committee to sift through applications for the town administrator's position and recommend top candidates.
  June 22, 2013 - Lowell Sun
• From art to sports, summer camps in full swing
      This week nearly 40 kids are flexing their creative muscles at art camp at VanGoghs Hideaway in Jasper. VanGoghs owner Kathe Hall, top left, is using the theme of recycled materials for projects children will create through the week. Here, art campers sift through aluminum cans, bottle tops and old keys that will become their very own works of art. VanGoghs is one of the many places in ...
  June 22, 2013 - Pickens County Progress
• Stable Fire Kills 35 Show Horses At Rossville Farm
        Fire investigators sift through what is left of two large stables at Happy Valley Farms. Last night's fire too intense to save 35 valuable show horses.      "We saw flames jumping up and over the trees from the main highway out across the football field and the practice fields and then you could just here things exploding," said witness Hannah Williams.      "They always try to save any ...
  June 21, 2013 - WDEF Chattanooga

Quotes

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• Stewart Gull in Times Online
  Our task is to sift through this vast volume of information, to prioritise our inquiries into these murders,Mr Gull said. "In each of the three murder inquiries we have a significant gap between when the women were last seen and the...
• Rick Rashid in BusinessWeek
  Increasingly, scientists and researchers rely on computer science to enable them to sift through massive amounts of data and find breakthroughs that could provide new insights into the human body, the earth we live on and even the universe,...