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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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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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The dismissal marks the end of a series of federal criminal cases that once dogged Trump's political future.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The cost-cutting project has also been dogged by a number of other recent controversies, including the case of 25-year-old staffer Marko Elez, who resigned after The Wall Street Journal published a string of racist posts from his X account.—
Will McCurdy,
PCMAG,
8 Feb. 2025
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Vendors hawked Trump gear on the streets, and the arena became MAGA central.—
Joey Garrison,
USA TODAY,
26 Jan. 2025
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Obsession by Calvin Klein (1990) David Lynch’s first-ever foray into the world of hawking tonics was for Calvin Klein, making four short ads for its fragrance Obsession.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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The need is vast, but logistical problems hound efforts to keep people who are imprisoned on a regular schedule of medication.—
Ethan Varian,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Dias is often seen hounding opposition strikers all the way back towards their own goal; if the ball is cleared up towards them, the Portuguese will be right there in their back, and snapping at any loose ball, even if that takes him up near the corner flag.—
Sam Lee,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The report also found that Santa Barbara County failed to thoroughly empty the existing basins before the disaster, drastically reducing their capacity to trap debris.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news Earthquakes, tornadoes, air strikes — all around the world, countless lives are lost not just to the direct impacts of disasters, but those that are trapped in the resulting wreckage.—
Anna Funk,
Discover Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Ferret.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferret. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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