Winnows

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 (2011)

In today's pictures, frost covers a runner's face in Russia, a laborer winnows rice in India, a lamb hitches a ride on a motorcycle in Havana and more. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Suzanne McGee (2011)

Private competition that winnows out losers is so yesterday. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But too often the tendency for order and method winnows the action of grit and nastiness. ❋ Fiona Maddocks (2010)

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. ❋ Liam Pleven (2011)

But standing a few steps back in the shadows, with her name many points smaller on the cover, has been perhaps a more influential figure, the "series editor," who traditionally winnows down the year's thousands of stories into a list of finalists for the guest editor to choose from. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Barbour said no one was kicked off Medicaid, the Mississippi's Clarion-Ledger headlined: "Medicaid winnows out some children." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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False: the recount INCLUDES the work of the canvassing board that evaluates and winnows and counts the rejected ballots. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As to Iowa, it's a state with a tradition of civic-mindedness and the caucus system winnows out people who are paying a lot of attention from the ones who aren't. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Know what else has a self-selection process that winnows out only the most committed partisan voters? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The social-research firm KLD, for example, targets tobacco, booze, weapons, gambling, and nuclear power, and then winnows the surviving companies with a responsible-practices screen. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had like [2000] friends on [Facebook], so I winnowed them down to the [100] people I actually like. ❋ JavaJaneOhio (2010)

Kim: I had a very sad [childhood] [Linda]: Winnow. Winnow. We've [heard it] ❋ Debbie Hanna (2023)