filter out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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The Swedish company confirmed the verification process “will be rooted in human review and judgment” to help filter out bad actors.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
“I don’t want them to restrict YouTube in my district,” he said, “but Google doesn’t make it very easy” to filter out distractions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
"We filter out known natural influences in the observational data, so that the 'noise' is reduced, making the underlying long-term warming signal more clearly visible," Foster added.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
We believe fox8 was only the tip of the iceberg because better coders can filter out self-revealing posts or use open-source AI models fine-tuned to remove ethical guardrails.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
There is a strong general tendency to filter out the bad and the failed and to focus on the good and the successful.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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