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When the very restaurant that kick-started the revival of British seasonal cooking is nosing around the neighborhood, there can be no better proof that Soho is gastronomically edgy again.
From Time ● Jul. 21, 2010
Land that went for $200 an acre before Disney Day can soar overnight to $100,000 on the rumor that Disney is nosing around.
From Time Magazine Archive
Based in Beaverton, Ore., the company is nosing ahead of its archrival Reebok, which controls about 22% of the market.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Prairie-dog cannot see well unless he is sitting up on his hind legs; his eyes are of little use when he is nosing in the grass; and Tito knew this.
From Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted by Ernest Thompson Seton
Withem is nosing around El Paso as you know, lying low for some folks that we know of there.
From The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, On the Trail of the Border Bandits by Frank Gee Patchin
