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verb

past tense of screen
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as in filtered
to pass through a filter you should screen the cooking oil to remove impurities

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as in covered
to place a protective layer over screened his eyes with his hand to block the sun

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Recent Examples of screened
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Fiction films that have screened in Premieres include A Different Man, Past Lives, Passages, Promising Young Woman, Kajillionaire, The Report, The Big Sick, and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024 To tempt subscribers, Disney spent tens of billions of dollars on movies and shows which played exclusively on its platform rather than being screened in theaters or on television. Caroline Reid, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024 Dali was screened and boarded the plane without presenting a boarding pass. Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024 Tribeca Enterprises chief Jane Rosenthal called for a reconsideration, and members of the senior programming team then screened the film and accepted it. Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024 As the stakes mount, CNBC Pro screened for stocks in the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq exceeding $1 billion in market value, with the highest positive correlation with bitcoin over a 60-day period starting mid-November. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024 Her film Take Me Home premiered at Sundance, screened at the White House and won the Grand Jury prize at American Cinematheque’s Proof Film Festival. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024 Now, kids are routinely screened for high lead levels in their blood and treated if their levels are concerning. Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024 How to Screen for Type 1 Diabetes Getting screened for type 1 diabetes is important even for adults, according to Shara Bialo, MD, field medical director (Northeast) of T1D Immunology at Sanofi and a pediatric endocrinologist currently living with the condition. Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 5 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for screened
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  • Ramping up security costs money, and depending on the kind of security, who is being protected and whether there’s been a formal security study done, those costs may or may not get favorable tax treatment.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike investing directly in the market, your cash value benefits from market gains but is protected from losses due to market downturns.
    Andre Pennington, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • The dark patterns somehow concealed these in-game purchases from gamers.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Surveillance images from the shooting show the man wearing a hooded jacket and a mask that concealed most of his face -- a look that would not have attracted attention on a chilly morning.
    MICHAEL BALSAMO AND MICHAEL R. SISAK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024
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  • Other technologies covered by the EEA include computers and operating systems, smartphones, ATMs, ticketing systems, television and telephony services, e-books and transportation services.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The new pricing for these doses will be 50% cheaper than the other GLP-1 drugs in the market, although the reduced pricing won’t apply to the doses covered by insurance.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • In his own testimony, auctioneer Jeff Tanenbaum defended the sale process when Jones’ lawyers pressed him over not holding a live auction.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Auctioneer Jeff Tanenbaum on Monday defended both the value of the bid and its selection.
    CBS News, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • In both, his face is partially obscured by a blue mask.
    Cedar Attanasio and Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The manhunt has thus far relied on just a few grainy images of a man whose face is largely obscured by a mask and hoodie.
    Gaby Del Valle, The Verge, 9 Dec. 2024
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  • Weiner, 61, is guarded about his own life.
    J. David McSwane, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Foxx is known to be guarded about his private life and hasn’t yet publicly disclosed what caused his hospitalization.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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  • But as Daniel Goleman writes in his book Social Intelligence, in a society that puts too much emphasis on individualism, the power of the social brain often gets suppressed and overlooked.
    Kevin Kruse, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • But Google's study, published in Nature, showed that for the first time, errors can be suppressed exponentially as a quantum computer increases in size – a breakthrough that has been pursued in the field for more than 30 years.
    Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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  • Candidates who masked the effects of international trade didn’t solve any retail problems.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Two new photos released by police show the suspect masked with a hood in the backseat of a vehicle and wearing a jacket walking on the street.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024

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