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have been ferreting
  • present perfect progressive of ferret.

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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 Yonge, Charlotte Mary