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  • adjective Capable of being sifted.

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sift +‎ -able

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  • We can feel relatively secure about what Julius Caesar was like, or Augustus, or even Buddha, since there is a siftable degree of agreement between sources which might disagree at one point, and agree at another.

    N.T. Wright and Evangelical Theology | clusterflock 2008

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