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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
winnow . - noun Plural form of
winnow .
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Examples
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The wife runs the house, rears the children, winnows out any possible source of irritation to her husband, and seeks to advance his career from what she alone sees as her place in the background.
Morgan Evans: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh. Morgan Evans 2011
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The wife runs the house, rears the children, winnows out any possible source of irritation to her husband, and seeks to advance his career from what she alone sees as her place in the background.
Morgan Evans: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh. Morgan Evans 2011
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But too often the tendency for order and method winnows the action of grit and nastiness.
Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto Fiona Maddocks 2010
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The wife runs the house, rears the children, winnows out any possible source of irritation to her husband, and seeks to advance his career from what she alone sees as her place in the background.
Morgan Evans: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh. Morgan Evans 2011
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But Mr. Cook says he wasn't at all surprised by the magnitude of the gains recorded by the small companies he winnows through in search of future stars.
Top of the Heap Suzanne McGee 2011
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Private competition that winnows out losers is so yesterday.
The Solyndra Economy 2011
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Pawlenty acknowledges he must show "progress and momentum" in an Aug. 11 Iowa debate and the Aug. 13 GOP straw poll, a carnival-like contest in Ames that sometimes winnows out the weak.
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The problem is that the system doesn't work well enough, that PoC (and other minorities) often face further obstacles, face extra challenges unrelated to merit, which winnows their numbers in an unequal way.
Special Guest Post: Zetta Elliott on the Myth of Meritocracy 2010
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David Sokol 's surprise departure from the sprawling conglomerate removes the widely presumed front-runner from contention and winnows the pool of internal candidates in one of the longest-running succession dramas in corporate America.
Buffett Successor List Gets Shorter Liam Pleven 2011
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The wife runs the house, rears the children, winnows out any possible source of irritation to her husband, and seeks to advance his career from what she alone sees as her place in the background.
Morgan Evans: Lucille Ball. Mehhhhhhhh. Morgan Evans 2011
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