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In 2021, Arjan Mann, a postdoctoral paleontologist at the museum and a former Peter Buck Fellow, was sifting through Hotton's trove of Texas fossils when one specimen labeled as an early amphibian caught his eye.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

Abdurrahman Kurdo, a business student and the manager of a hotel near the destroyed Antioch Greek Orthodox Church, was sifting through the rubble to salvage what he could of Antakya's culture.

From Reuters • Mar. 7, 2023

Back at the wrecked apartment building, the fire was out and Mr. Yurchik’s father, Konstantin, was sifting through his damaged home.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2022

At another gravesite, Carolina Montes, a forensic investigator from the city of Tepic in western Mexico, was sifting through dirt with a sieve.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2021

Her gaze fell to the ground, pupils darting back and forth, as though she was sifting through every event of the past two days.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman