SIFTED Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

sifted

verb

past tense of sift

as in filtered

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as in inspected

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Sunlight bent and filtered through Earth's atmosphere leaks into the shadow, carrying the red-orange glow of every sunrise and sunset around the world.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The grading process was one of the places where Darlington and colorist Daniel Gill really wanted the image to look grounded and authentic, not polished and Instagram-filtered.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of filtered

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One of the people who saw and inspected the impressive whitetail was veteran tribal conservation officer Bill Bailey from Honor, Michigan.

— Richard P. Smith, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2026
Following Hawley’s death in 2022, state officials told Six Flags to immediately shut down X2 and leave it in its current condition so it could be inspected.

— Blake Ellis, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of inspected

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The teen was booked into juvenile detention after detectives screened two counts of first-degree murder with the Utah County Attorney’s Office, police said.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026
The film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and has screened around the world since then, including at Tribeca Festival, the Red Sea International Film Festival in Saudi Arabia, and the Zagreb Film Festival in Croatia.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of screened

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Police investigated the death of Holmes for 18 months before charging Vaughn, Early and Brown in March 1990.

— Brett Barrouquere, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2026
For decades, an attacker discovered a vulnerability, a security tool generated an alert, an analyst investigated it, the issue was escalated and eventually someone decided what to do.

— Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of investigated

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This is true for ALE too, which academic researchers have studied extensively in an attempt to improve processes or address its low throughput.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have studied 72 young, sun-like stars.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2026

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