ferret
noun
a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
have been ferreting
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present perfect progressiveof ferret.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you mean that you have been ferreting out some old scrape of mine?’
From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Charlotte Mary Yonge
