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1 On Tuesday night, the handsome field of competitors was winnowed down to just one, with the best in show judge, Rosalind Kramer, selecting Sage, a miniature poodle, as this year’s champion.

2 The show goes into its critical phase next week, when the contestants will be winnowed to 24, after which viewers will begin voting for their favorites each week.

3 Each of the four men proposes 30 gags, which are winnowed down until there are just enough strips to be used in a month.

4 Welcome back to , where each week Bachelor Sean Lowe, having sown the seeds of love, now winnows the wheat from the chaff like a love farmer in a Super Bowl ad.

5 The selections for “Xscape” were winnowed from two dozen unreleased songs that had full-length vocal takes, a sign that Jackson thought the material was worthwhile.

6 The field will gradually be winnowed down through challenges and a boot camp in Los Angeles.

7 In past years the Academy relied on committees to winnow the field of 100-plus documentaries each year to 15 qualifying movies.

8 In the face of panic, indecision or tantrum, winnowing down options can force Junior to focus, decide and move forward.

9 At last the serious winnowing has begun on “American Idol,” and a few voices and personalities are beginning to emerge from the mass of singers the panel of three judges sent to the Hollywood round.

10 Struggling to winnow down highlights from a year of incredibly varied listening, I decided to focus on the vocal performances that most thrilled, calmed and inspired me.

11 They winnowed that list down to five, and now the public will vote.

12 Would he like to become one of the 25 bachelors who vie for the heart of a bachelorette, episode after episode, as she gradually and sometimes ruthlessly winnows them down?

13 We worked through the days and in the twilight getting in the rice, and then we worked three more days draining the fields and clearing them, and then three more nights sifting and winnowing.

14 Drawing from a trove of interviews, correspondence and diaries, Ms. Winder shows how selectively Plath edited that period, winnowing the positive, accentuating the negative, leaving out her thirst for glamour and fashion.

15 But I feel like—unlike almost anything else Idol does—it could actually make more of the winnowing process, especially the group auditions, which are kind of like a mini-reality show within a reality show.

16 Through those early rounds, the 56 entries will be progressively winnowed down to 22, which are then split into two semifinals of 11 each.

17 Give her another 21 years and she could winnow it down to an aphorism.

18 You should winnow out the inaccuracies of this paper this afternoon.

你今天下午把这篇文章中不精确的内容删掉.

19 The voting process for the documentary category underwent an overhaul this year intended to limit the nomination of obscure films, and ensure that a larger group of documentary filmmakers winnowed the nominees.

20 That group will be winnowed down to 100 citizens who will return for further questioning later in the month, according to Los Angeles Superior Court officials.

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