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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

Then Sheehy and the five team leads would debate whatever information they had gleaned.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2020

“You’re getting housed over in Donner,” Ehde told my cellie, sharing information he had gleaned from events of the day.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2020

Perhaps it was the unexpected closeness she felt to Scythe Curie after seeing her feed the grieving family and listen—truly listen—to their stories about the man she had gleaned.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman