- present perfect progressive of ferret.
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.
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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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary