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sifting

The act of separating grain from chaff.

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Examples for "sifting"
Examples for "sifting"
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We need more data from the body before we can start sifting.'
Something in the water
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There were too many people in Madras interested in sifting the facts.
Phantom Fortune, a Novel
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The following is the result of the sifting test of this sand:
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LX...
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The wagon lumbered away with the sifting dust gushing from the wheels.
The Emigrant Trail
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The panel could start sifting through the paperwork as early as September.
The Guardian
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Stars can also be used to winnow which reviews you need to read.
Independent.ie
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Only having taken it in, we do winnow and sift it.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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Thus did our superintendent winnow the chaff from the wheat continually.
The Iron Horse
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Selling OneMain would allow Citigroup to winnow Citi Holdings even further.
Reuters
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Meekly, she spoke, Our people, Prometheus, they winnow into the winds.
Book Four: Tales From Ancient Days
Uso de winnowing en inglés
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His thoughts whirled around in his mind like chaff in a winnowing-machine.
The Adventures of Captain Horn
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This process of winnowing was of course counterbalanced by another of recruitment.
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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They scattered, as the chronicles record, like chaff from the winnowing fan.
The Fountains of Paradise
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The left hand holding a scoop for winnowing corn; the other points upwards.
Mornings in Florence
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The winnowing of grain is conducted in the most slovenly manner.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years ...
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Citigroup Inc C.N management also faced questions about winnowing operating leverage.
Reuters
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The mystic winnowing-fan, encircled by Serpents, was used in the feasts of Bacchus.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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Butel-Dumont describes the sieves and winnowing fans of the Louisiana Indians.
Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States / Thirteenth An...
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But the caucuses serve a valuable role in winnowing the field.
Reuters
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Around the winnowing tray are set all the requisites for a plenteous meal.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo / Memoirs of the National Academy of Sci...
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It's a matter of ruling out possibilities and winnowing out suspects.
Death angel
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The hands caught his sides, saw-blade nails winnowing into the flesh.
Stinger
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Or else a filter sieves the cosmos, winnowing those who climb too high.
Futures 1
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Well, after that, Ischomachus, we will proceed to cleanse the corn by winnowing.
The Economist
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But without soul, alas what winnowing-machine in human elections, can be of avail?
Past and Present
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Ploughs, waggons, threshing-sledges, harrows, baskets, hurdles, winnowing-fans are the farmer's implements.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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sifting
Winnowing a través del tiempo
Winnowing por variante geográfica
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