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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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Doug Smith Senior writer Doug Smith scouts Los Angeles for the ragged edges where public policy meets real people, combining data analysis and gumshoe reporting to tell L.A. stories through his 45 years of experience covering the city.
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One East Coast gumshoe, posting under the screen name Undead Molly, offered a Marxist interpretation: a mob of blue-collar workers, resentful of rich college students, was carrying out the drownings as an act of class warfare.
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Kirk Wallace Johnson’s new book The Feather Thief is a veritable Mental ward of anoraks—explorers, naturalists, gumshoes, dentists, musicians and salmon fly-tyers.
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No, Mute commits the far worse sin of simply being dull, and running through its amateur gumshoe plot with a curious lack of zeal.
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Robert Zemeckis’s groundbreaking 1988 fantasy-noir blends live-action and animation to tell the tale of a gumshoe (Bob Hoskins) trying to clear the name of a cartoon rabbit named Roger, who’s been framed for murder.
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These citizen reporters use the gumshoe techniques depended on by the best muckrakers in their craft.
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Price continued: Had DACA never existed, the government would have had to do gumshoe detective work to identify and apprehend DACA beneficiaries.
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The film is perhaps the first Technicolor, partially animated, psychedelic gumshoe noir.
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First Known Use of gumshoe
1913
Definition of gumshoe
First Known Use of gumshoe
1930
GUMSHOE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition 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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