Winnowed

Word WINNOWED
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Definitions and meanings of "Winnowed"

What do we mean by winnowed?

To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff.

To separate, sift, analyze, or test by separating items having different values.

To blow upon or toss about by blowing; to set in motion as with a fan or wings.

To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

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The word "winnowed" in example sentences

But it was not until the last few weeks that McCain winnowed his list to five or six finalists. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They try them, as silver in the furnace is refined from its dross; they purge them, as wheat in the barn is winnowed from the chaff; and they make them white, as cloth by the fuller is cleared from its spots. ❋ Unknown (1721)

At what point do we see this really huge field kind of winnowed down to a handful of serious contenders, do you think? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Not allowing the field to be kind of winnowed down to one or two people that everyone can get behind? ❋ Unknown (2004)

"winnowed" as the opening of the beautiful and passionate soliloquy of ❋ Various (N/A)

They winnowed it down, separating essentials from wish lists, then Gail and Stu summarized them in a memo to me. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

But legal hurdles to entering that contest have winnowed the field of contenders to a handful who aren't expected to present a serious challenge. ❋ Alan Cullison (2011)

Their ranks are winnowed down by success, as well. ❋ Daniel Barbarisi (2011)

And I personally feel that the libertarian field needs to be winnowed a bit by waiving either Ron or Rand Paul. ❋ Joe Queenan (2012)

Thusly has David Foster Wallace, perhaps the most intentionally malleable and linguistically flexible writer of the last 30 years, been crunched, winnowed down, and calcified into a glib bumper sticker of "Wallacianism;" a bright and gaudy affectation used to further whomever's objectives. ❋ Omer Rosen (2011)

In closing the fund, the Menlo Park, Calif., firm is bucking two prevailing trends in the venture-capital industry, including an anemic fund-raising environment that has winnowed the number of venture firms that can raise large pools of capital. ❋ Pui-Wing Tam (2011)

So when this playoff field is winnowed to three or four candidates, he will need to show he can break through that ceiling by winning early and demonstrating growth potential. ❋ Matthew Dowd (2012)

As compounds graduate to phase III studies or are winnowed out for lack of significant benefit, new candidates are cycled in, sparing the cost and time to mount separate trials. ❋ Ron Winslow (2010)

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