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Recent Examples of ferret
Half the fun for diehard Poe fans is ferreting all the hidden Easter eggs and savoring the ingenious ways Flanagan has riffed on the source material.
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Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023
To bring people in and keep them, Caldwell said that along with offering more sign-on bonuses and time off, small and midsize companies in Silicon Valley are offering more competitive stock options along with referral bonuses to help ferret the right people out in a mostly remote world.
—Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2021
The incentive to ferret them out has only increased; Putin has recently made several appeals for the F.S.B. to be on alert for those seeking to undermine and destabilize the Russian state.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023
There, researcher and Biological Dynamics founder Raj Krishnan, figured out how to use alternating current to ferret out very small bio-markers from blood and other liquid solutions.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
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Questions of racial discrimination have often dogged Urban Beach Week, which attracts mostly young African Americans and has been met with a very large — and some say intimidating — police contingent.—
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But Bates’s no-nonsense approach to crime and dogged determination to hold all lawbreakers accountable created a seismic shift in how crime and punishment would be tackled in Maryland’s largest city.—
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But the Red Sox can now make calls to the business community to hawk their suites, program ads and ballpark signage without getting hung up on.—
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About Those Influencers Influencer strategy has evolved dramatically from the days of Kylie Jenner hawking the latest lipstick.—
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On Saturday, their new signing, Nico Gonzalez, brought in to reinforce the midfield, was hounded off the ball before Jamie Donley tried to beat the goalkeeper from 40 yards.—
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The pass rush that Dillon Gabriel was able to expertly elude during their first matchup hounded the Ducks quarterback with eight sacks.—
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Major American investors, including Trump allies, are involved with companies prospecting nickel, iron and rare earth elements, even though much of it is trapped far under frozen ground or ice (in some parts of Greenland, the ice is two miles thick).—
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Many states have regulations or laws about trapping and releasing feral swine, for example, in order to help reduce the spread.—
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“Ferret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferret. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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