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Winnow meaning
To subject (granular material, especially food grain) to a current of air separating heavier and lighter components, as grain from chaff. | To separate, sift, analyse, 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.
Example sentences (10)
I went back and re-read that handful to winnow the contest field down to about two dozen strong contenders.
Once they generated a list of promising drugs that got the cholesterol stuck in the cells moving again, the parents and researchers would all meet together to winnow down the candidates and figure out which ones to push forward.
The lack of equipment to harvest, thresh, winnow and mill the rice has resulted in the crop being left at the mercy of the weather, leading to post harvest losses, it said.
Functional freeze goes a step further, however, because under its rubric we feel such a deep internal malaise that our external facade of normalcy begins to winnow away our functionality like an ice cube on a sunny patio.
Judges will winnow contest entries to three teams in late February, then choose a finalist in April.
Last year, the Democratic Party held multiple debates that featured enough people on stage to put on an impromptu performance of only to see the field gradually winnow down before primary season officially kicked off with the Iowa caucuses last week.
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If you don’t make the debate stage, one option is to follow Gillibrand’s path, take the DNC’s hint, and quit the race so the field can winnow to a reasonable size.
His administration failed to achieve that goal, although it did winnow the number of detainees to 41 from 242.
The limits of the sensorium available at the nanoscale could make it difficult or impossible to winnow successes from failures.