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Idioms and Phrases

Uncover and bring to light by searching, as in Sandy was a superb reporter, tireless in ferreting out whatever facts were needed for her story . This expression alludes to hunting with ferrets, weasel-like animals formerly used to drive rabbits out of their burrows. [c. 1600]
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Example Sentences

What I saw was a careful and ingenious reporter ferret out a fraud with care.

That alone provides a powerful incentive for civil society to try to ferret out the numbers.

Lots of people at SAC work extremely hard to ferret out good investing ideas.

The investigation, he said, would ferret out government responsibility for the tragedy.

Even foreign journalists inside the city have struggled to ferret out information.

A soldier is not a conjurer that he should be handed over a fully laden ship and told to ferret out a fuse key.

We cannot even begin to ferret out and discuss all the psychological problems that are concealed behind these bland tables.

Positively the only way to detect such fictitious allowances for damages, is to ferret out each case by itself.

Leaving detachments to ferret out prisoners from the deeper dug-outs, the French made for the second line.

Mr. Bassett said that his colleague could not always adhere to the principle that it was his duty to ferret out every error.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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