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Noun
the couple paid a gumshoe to look for their missing son
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Greenspan’s elastic voice and ceaselessly expressive hands also turn him into Ulysses—a church organist from the Faulkner south whose fanatical devotion to Theda led him, like Iras, straight to her door—and into Detective Finale, Iras’s gumshoe father who’s on the case of their disappearance.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
Io is a world-weary gumshoe who can see all the threads that bind mortals to their fates and uses this unusual perception to solve mysteries and crimes.
—John Wiswell, People.com, 3 July 2025
If the two movies got your gumshoe goin', then check out the book series the films are based on.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Wednesday has been reduced to a psychic gumshoe prone to seizures and crying blood (or unnamed black fluid) from the overuse of her powers.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Greenspan’s elastic voice and ceaselessly expressive hands also turn him into Ulysses—a church organist from the Faulkner south whose fanatical devotion to Theda led him, like Iras, straight to her door—and into Detective Finale, Iras’s gumshoe father who’s on the case of their disappearance.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
Io is a world-weary gumshoe who can see all the threads that bind mortals to their fates and uses this unusual perception to solve mysteries and crimes.
—John Wiswell, People.com, 3 July 2025
If the two movies got your gumshoe goin', then check out the book series the films are based on.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gumshoe
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“Gumshoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumshoe. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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