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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sift .
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Examples
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They are scared because they don't know how bad it's going to be before everything kind of sifts out.
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In her reflective quasi-memoir The Sixties [1], British author Jenny Diski sifts through some of the baggage but ultimately comes away dismayed and discouraged.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski » Print 2009
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About Digital Dirk's Dispatches Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers.
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About Digital Dirk's Dispatches Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers.
Daily Dispatch: MetroPCS to charge more for VoIP; 112th Congress streams to Facebook 2011
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The black tendril leans in a light breeze, and a faint, sooty mist sifts down on the tin roof of a nearby bungalowthe house-cum-courtroom of Joshua Pittman, the justice of the peace.
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In her reflective quasi-memoir The Sixties, British author Jenny Diski sifts through some of the baggage but ultimately comes away dismayed and discouraged.
Book Review: The Sixties by Jenny Diski « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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Not only does secret assembly alleviate holdout problems, it is also superior to eminent domain because it sifts out those development projects that create more value than preexisting uses of the land in question from those that do not.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Debate Over Eminent Domain “Empty and Incoherent”? 2010
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About Digital Dirk's Dispatches Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers.
Daily Dispatch: Apple offers personal setup for Macs; Samsung showcases flexible displays 2011
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About Digital Dirk's Dispatches Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers.
Daily Dispatch: Hints of an Apple Mobile Social Network; Mobile allows time-shifting of reading 2011
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About Digital Dirk's Dispatches Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily to bring you the Digital Dispatch—a compilation of the most important and interesting tech news for consumers.
Daily Dispatch: Pentagon disbands Social Media Office; Kindle Lending Club site launched 2011
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