James Payn

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.

English Novelist

Gretchen Rubin

Some kind of clutter is difficult - letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers - but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I'm always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter.

American Author

Jay Samit

As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.

American Businessman

Rebecca Solnit

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

American Writer

Jonny Bairstow

If someone who doesn't know anything about wicketkeeping finds a reason to criticise, you have to sift it out. It's about working out how to deal with the criticism while improving your game.

English Athlete

Erin Morgenstern

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Helen Frankenthaler

We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.

American Artist

Dominique Crenn

I was sifting through the dier, and I remember thinking: This potato is important. It comes up from the soil and feeds us, it connects us. It is the core of society.

French Chef

Billie Joe Armstrong

Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

American Singer

Julia Holter

I don't consider myself supremely talented, but I really like to try things and sift through it and see what mess I made.

American Musician

Often used in cooking to ensure ingredients are fine and lump-free for better texture.

Culinary Usage

Involves moving back and forth to separate particles; not all substances can be sifted.

Physical Action

It implies a detailed and thorough search, often in a methodical way.

Careful Examination

Not physically sorting; it's about analyzing information or ideas.

Figurative Sense

Used when searching for specific things among many, like finding valuable insights.

Discovery Oriented

Implies selecting with care or judgment, often for quality.

Discriminating Choice

Sifting can mean removing unwanted elements from a group.

Process of Elimination

 There's nothing quite like it anywhere else in the world. Collecting information on thousands of children is a really powerful thing to do, because it means we can compare the ones who say, do well at school or end up healthy or happy or wealthy as adults, and the ones who struggle much more, and then we can sift through all the information we've collected

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 that'll equip you to sift through this information critically, find what you're looking for, and decide whether the new fad really suits your needs. gather your information. There's lots of it out there, so having a clear idea of your question will help you determine what's relevant.

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 and it was essentially owned by all of the people who have a room to rent. And when someone wants to rent a room, they go onto the blockchain database and all the criteria, they sift through, it helps them find the right room, and then the blockchain helps with the contracting,

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 in which one pixel is less than half a meter in resolution. I've got literally a lifetime of work to do just to sift through this data to find that tiny fragment of information that might be weird. This is my data, right. Can I have people help me find something like a tomb of

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 my job was to sift through every number I could get my hands on so we can make billion dollar deals work over time I started to notice that there was a missing factor from our model the concept actually seemed pretty simple if the leaders of these companies were able

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 and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market. And in that situation, sifting through the wreckage of a suicide drone attack, it will be very difficult to say

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 Right now, your brain is working like crazy. Your neurons are firing like mad trying to make meaning out of this so that you see something other than black and white blobs. Your brain is sifting through a lifetime of experience,

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 when I first started doing cyber, I wasn't sure that sifting through ones and zeros was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, because in my mind, cyber was keeping viruses off of my grandma's computer,

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 or sift through traces of time and discover patterns in your own life that previously had gone undiscovered. Well that's exactly the journey that my family began five and a half years ago.

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 it hovers just above the surface of the mud as it delicately sifts through it searching for worms but it can jet away at the first sign of