separate the wheat from the chaff

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Meaning: (idiomatic,intransitive)Toselectonly that which is ofvalue.Synonym:winnowHyponyms:(figurative)cream the crop,cherry-pick2022July 13, Rachel Cheung, “A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia”, inVice‎[1]:As a punishment,Zhemaoand her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently. Most of her articles were deleted based on community consensus. SomeWikipedianseven wrote to experts, seeking help toseparate the wheat from the chaff.

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