Timeline for Can "to winnow out" or "to screen out" mean "to extract or identify (something desirable)"?
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| Aug 14, 2016 at 7:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/764729028490190852 | ||
| Aug 13, 2016 at 23:34 | vote | accept | Sean | ||
| Aug 10, 2016 at 14:00 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | The organization picks the best candidates. Or selects them. Or identifies them alright. There is no reason to use any other verb except if you want to sound awful, or wrong, or both. (And if your intention actually is to sound awful, or wrong, or both, then you can fill the blank with absolutely any transitive verb at all.) Oh and for the love of God, do not use extract. When you extract something from a body, we are talking parasites. Or cancer. Or poo. We are certainly not talking people. Much less the best people. | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 13:55 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2016 at 12:32 | answer | added | Lawrence | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 9:47 | answer | added | Ronald Sole | timeline score: -1 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 9:42 | answer | added | Max Williams | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 10, 2016 at 9:33 | history | asked | Sean | CC BY-SA 3.0 |