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[ verb ] move as if through a sieve
Examples "The soldiers sifted through the woods" Related terms |
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[ verb ] separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements
Examples "sift the flour" Used in print (William C. Smith, "Why Fear Ideas?"...)Frequently we are given assurance that automatically all ideas will be sifted and resifted and in_the_end only the good ones will survive . |
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