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