glean
verb (used with object)
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
had gleaned
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past perfectof glean.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Separately, according to the documents, Andrew wrote to other contacts with information about U.K. government policies, and his own insights on the leadership and operations of British companies that he had gleaned in his role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
Here's a sense of what we had gleaned is in it.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
There was also a focus when they were together to ensure their workouts tended to be more targeted based on what their coaches had gleaned from analytics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Facebook also sent inquiring senators a six-page letter that didn’t include any of the information it had gleaned.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2021
One by one, in no particular order, the scythes came to the front to recite various names of people they had gleaned over the past four months.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
