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Ms. Orlean has gleaned many of her ideas from serendipitous wanderings around city neighborhoods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

Baum, a journalist for the Hollywood Reporter, draws on knowledge he has gleaned about cosmetic surgery, the profession of his protagonist, Dr. Roya Delshad.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

From this text, the Supreme Court has gleaned the principle that states may not regulate commerce beyond their borders, since that’s a task for Congress alone.

From Slate • May 11, 2023

The U.S. defense official described a bonanza of information the American military has gleaned about Russian “tactics and procedures” by watching “how they perform in combat” since the Feb. 24 invasion.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

Professor Thurston of Hoboken, in his excellent work upon the "History of the Steam-Engine," has gleaned from the literature of the last seven hundred years several interesting allusions to the nature and power of steam.

From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by Parton, James