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Recent Examples of ferretHalf the fun for diehard Poe fans is ferreting all the hidden Easter eggs and savoring the ingenious ways Flanagan has riffed on the source material.—Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023 The incentive to ferret them out has only increased; Putin has recently made several appeals for the F.S.B. to be on alert for those seeking to undermine and destabilize the Russian state.—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2023 There, researcher and Biological Dynamics founder Raj Krishnan, figured out how to use alternating current to ferret out very small bio-markers from blood and other liquid solutions.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023 Zelensky recalled the initial moments of the war, when much of the world expected Kyiv to fall within days and U.S. officials offered to ferret him out of the city to escape assassination.—David L. Stern, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ferret
But the question of the Tour dogged his entire career.
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Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
8 July 2025
Netanyahu's outwardly triumphant visit to the White House, his third this year, is dogged by Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza and questions over how hard Trump will push for an end to the conflict.
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arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
8 July 2025
Since débuting in March, a company called Crave New World has been hawking its next-gen TV dinners on college campuses, even brokering a deal with fraternities and sororities: free food to fuel a social-media competition (the prize: tickets to the N.C.A.A. Final Four).
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Sheila Yasmin Marikar,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
Preying on public skepticism of the pharmaceutical and health industries to hawk alternative approaches that are often unregulated and don’t work is damaging it enough.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 June 2025
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