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Examples of gumshoe in a Sentence
the suspicious wife paid a gumshoe to follow her husband
Recent Examples of gumshoe from the Web
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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Round out the dog days with a crooning governess, a singing gumshoe, a power-hungry Scottish general and his scheming spouse and more.
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Likewise, there were millions who, in the waning days of the campaign, clicked happily on a salacious dossier of anti-Trump material gathered by gumshoes in an effort to stop him.
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Katz, of Fort Lauderdale, is one of a rare breed: a licensed private investigator who traded the traditional gumshoe world for a life tracking wandering animals.
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Smith here shows the breadth of his acting abilities as the laconic gumshoe Deuce Cooper.
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Before long, artificial intelligence should be able to analyze the data pouring in from devices and nail criminals better than any human gumshoe.
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Still, Smith has willingly sacrificed his offense and embraced his role as a basketball gumshoe, tailing and shadowing those who mean to do harm to the Cavs.
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Down there, a new law would require doctors to go gumshoe on the private lives of their patients.
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Spoiler alert: at the end of the movie, almost everyone’s kicked the bucket, leaving Jack Nicholson’s wearied gumshoe to ponder the bleak lesson that power stays with those in power and nothing really changes.
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First Known Use of gumshoe
1913
gumshoe
Definition of gumshoe
gumshoed
;gumshoeing
intransitive verb
: to engage in detective work
First Known Use of gumshoe
1930
GUMSHOE Defined for English Language Learners
gumshoe
playDefinition of gumshoe for English Language Learners
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: a person whose job is to find information about someone or something : a private detective
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