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filter out

British  

verb

  1. (intr, adverb) to become known gradually; leak

    rumours filtered out about the divorce

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But it’s important to filter out macro events, short-term headlines, and stock price volatility.

From Barron's

The residents started to filter out of the dining room.

From Literature

Their mouths went dry from breathing in the ash-filled air, and they pulled their shirts up and over their heads to help filter out what particles they could.

From Literature

Men filter out what they perceive as contempt for struggling economically.

From The Wall Street Journal

The research looks at how blinking relates to cognitive processes, including how the brain filters out background noise so we can focus on speech in busy environments.

From Science Daily