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How to use the word filter in a Sentence?

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The important part is that you have to keep changing those filters, if you do n’t change that filter, and it becomes saturated, the levels of PFAS in the filtered water can actually be above the levels in the tap water.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The important part is that you have to keep changing those filters, if you don't change that filter, and it becomes saturated, the levels of PFAS in the filtered water can actually be above the levels in the tap water.

David Andrews

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's essentially these micro-organics you can't filter out, it's so small.

Andy Fecko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You simply can not filter out the taste and odor.

Andy Fecko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It adds a tremendous amount of treatment costs, you're trying to filter out water that's 10 to 20 times dirtier.

Andy Fecko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's a really different environment : It's darker( because the water functions as a filter absorbing light, so the deeper you go, the darker it gets) and colder, there are much fewer corals, and almost no algae( because of the lack of light), so the fish community is very different and most fish at this depth feed on plankton( tiny marine invertebrates that live in the water column).

Luiz Rocha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What's different now is that there are so many more nodes for the distribution of propaganda, we have the problem that we always have on social media of having too much information and not being able to sort through that and filter it to say what is real and what is not real. One thing that we always observe when there's a crisis or a natural disaster is that people will circulate content that they know is fake.

Jennifer Mercieca

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Typically, such kits include a rubber mouthpiece to prevent cuts and burns, brass screens to filter contaminants and disinfectant wipes, according to Harm Reduction International.

The Washington Post

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Faith shapes the way that I think and the way I create, instead of joining our culture today in looking through the broken lens of race, the broken lens of class, the broken lens of ‘fill-in-the-blank’ — as a Christian, I want to look through the breakthrough filter of Christ.

Ryan Bomberger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The point is you need to have more than one filter in life or you're going to be very, very confused. I feel great about this decision. The justice system worked … the media [assumed] that … White jurors only vote in a specific way and they grouped in in a bigoted, uniform, bigoted manner. And we know that this isn't true and it shows you how every case is different. Every case is nuanced. Avoid these sweeping generalizations.

Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So you humans do like to group things, especially when incidents happen close together, for me, you have the Rittenhouse case and you have the Arbery murders. These are close together. But it shows you that if you pick the right filter, which is the filter of self-defense, you would have easily predicted the outcomes of both cases.

Greg Gutfeld

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Masks help to filter out aerosol that is generated in our respiratory tract when we breathe or speak. ( They) are most effective at filtering out larger aerosol particles and less effective at filtering out the smallest ones, this is conceptually similar to driving a car when there are a lot of insects about -- the large ones tend to impact against the windshield whereas the small ones follow the air flow around the car.

Bryan Bzdek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We do mining of all these articles and social media posts looking for clues about disease events and different populations across many different languages, we use machine learning and AI to go through all that data, filter it, tag it, and then make it available to like WHO and CDC and others.

John Brownstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There's a big meta question -- to what extent do economic gains actually filter into political behavior. That is the riddle.

Mark Muro

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The clear goal is to disempower alternative media, the end game here is to force all content to be sifted through the filter of larger outlets.

Matt Taibbi

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

That criteria is for a certain size particle that is really the hardest size to filter out, it's very likely that the virus is mostly in particles that are larger than that critical size, the test size.

Linsey Marr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We generally had try to fly under the radar, knowing how fraught with peril this election might be because of the non-traditional way the votes would eventually be tabulated and the timing of that... we tried to kind of filter out that noise.

Matt Travis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The whole reproductive tract of the female seems to have evolved to filter out' unwanted' spermatozoa, we argue that cryptic female choice can potentially occur in multiple stages during the sperm migration from the vagina towards the unfertilized egg.

Jukka Kekäläinen

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups.

Robert Boessenecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Kawal COVID definitely came about because of distrust towards the information provided by the government, at least in the initial stages, generally, people don't believe the data that the government provides, even now, so this is why we see grassroots efforts to filter out the fake news from reliable information.

Charlotte Setijadi

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The general rule of thumb for emergencies is to store at least one gallon of water per person or pet per day and to have a three-day supply handy. However, if you typically drink tap water or have some sort of filter, I wouldn't worry about buying copious amounts of water.

Alyssa Pike

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The international justice system may not yet be equipped to filter out misleading information before shadows of incrimination are cast over entire nations and governments, human rights groups have condemned Myanmar based on unproven statements without the due process of criminal investigation.

Suu Kyi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Some of the stuff he says, when he's saying it, and I'm watching on TV, I spit my water out, i can't help but laugh. It's humorous. Some of the things -- not a lot -- but some of the things he's said, I've thought of saying, but I never would do it. I guess I give him credit for sticking with whatever he believes in. But he needs to use a filter way more.

Elizabeth Warren.Julie Cetrone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These songs were half based on what I was going through, but seeing them through a Game of Thrones filter.

Taylor Swift

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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