Example Sentences

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Then the RNA winnows the contending olfactory-receptor genes down to one.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

It progressively winnows out starlight, and stacks frame after frame to allow any faint planetary light to accumulate and eventually be seen.

From Scientific American • Feb. 10, 2021

Evolution is blind and evolutionary progress is a misnomer; natural selection carves and winnows according to the ever-changing status quo.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2019

An elite background, the popular argument goes, winnows out lesser minds.

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2018

It winnows through the stones as we watch, bubbling into the undeserving earth.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen