sift
verb (used with object)
to separate and retain the coarse parts of (flour, ashes, etc.) with a sieve.
sifts
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present tense formof sift (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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His Codex agent sifts through heaps of options flow data to identify big, aggressive trades, likely coming from institutional players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
AI sifts through tens of millions of records of data for marketers, who then create AI agents that carry out complex marketing tasks.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
In an office in central London, Signify's small team quietly sifts through thousands of posts.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
The Policy Lab sifts through all that data, evaluating some 500 markers to generate a list of individuals and families that its model predicts to be at high risk of becoming homeless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025
As for me, I sit in the sand, enjoying the gritty feeling as it sifts through my wriggling toes.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
