SIEVE Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

sieve

verb

Definition of sieve

as in to filter

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Recent Examples of sieve After sufficient brewing time, pour the tea into the pitcher through a fine mesh filter or sieve to remove the loose leaves or take out and throw out the whole tea bags. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 June 2026 Creativity is not just some commodity, trapped in the imagination, that can be tapped and sieved by technology. — John Semley, Wired News, 1 Apr. 2026 The mixture is then sieved to produce a smooth, drinkable liquid. — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026 The combine then automatically calibrates variables like rotor speed, fan speed and sieve clearances to produce those outcomes. — Michael L. Millenson, Forbes.com, 13 Jan. 2026 The light here is dazzling, even more so when sieved through lime and olive leaves and wooden canopies to dance on walls, terracotta tables, and guests’ faces. — Rosalyn Wikeley, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2026 Traitors is about the gullible and the skeptical working together to sieve the fraudulent from the truthful, an amalgamated nightmare of village idiots locking themselves in the stocks and pelting each other with rotten fruit. — Raven Smith, Vogue, 9 Jan. 2026 These recordings function like a kind of filter or sieve, retaining one part of us while the rest is allowed to drain away. — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025 Our students have spent hundreds of hours focusing on the fossils retrieved after sieving. — Kristi Curry Rogers, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024

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Those searches risk filtering out the candidates most likely to bring a perspective your bank lacks.

— Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Director Dustin Rikert worked efficiently, filming several takes of attendees filtering into the auction.

— Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of filter

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Kling teamed with filmmakers including Korean director Kim Sung-su to show how AI might reshape filmmaking, and Forum BIFF screened an AI short by Jia Zhangke.

— Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
Generally, experts are wary of universally screening men for low testosterone because testosterone measurements can be highly variable—and unhelpful.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of screen

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Smith missed the entire preseason after straining his calf during training camp.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026
Ties between Ukraine and its most important backer the United States have also been strained by the apparent withdrawal of US intelligence sharing, and restrictions to the Starlink satellite internet service.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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