Thesaurus results for FERRETING

ferreting

verb

present participle of ferret

as in hounding

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In the past, Harry has openly blamed the press for hounding his late mother, Princess Diana, before and after her death and more recently his wife, Meghan.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Speaking about the tumultuous relationship on a 2024 episode of SiriusXM's This Life of Mine with James Corden, Miller reflected on the boiling point between the scandalous affair and the chaos of the paparazzi and tabloids hounding them.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 17 June 2026

Definition of hounding

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There is a new solution to a problem that's been dogging the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.

— Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Stuck with no way out, and the Hexts’ head of security Jon (Lee Jae-yoon) dogging her steps, Cola hid the drive in an empty vodka bottle before she was forced down to the engine room to be held captive.

— Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026

Definition of dogging

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Farage has many sources of income other than a lawmaker’s salary, including hawking gold bullion, hosting a TV current affairs show, public speaking and recording personal video messages on the Cameo platform.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 July 2026
There were no vendors hawking bootleg royal-wedding merch, no screaming lines of fans, not even that many impromptu sing-alongs (some were solicited by journalists looking for content).

— Zach Schiffman, Curbed, 6 July 2026

Definition of hawking

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That region is the light-trapping outer boundary of the black hole known as the event horizon, which prevents us from ever seeing the singularity at the heart of the black hole or receiving information from it.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 July 2026
The car then overturned and submerged, trapping Lewis inside.

— Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 16 July 2026

Definition of trapping

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First baseman Michael Busch finished the play by reaching out and snaring Hoerner’s dazzling throw to complete the highlight and nab the speedy Salazar for the out.

— Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026
Pickens was even more dominant, snaring nine balls for 144 yards and a score.

— Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2025

Definition of snaring

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The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has been capturing some of the Red Planet's most surreal landscapes, and its latest images reveal a sprawling field that looks like molten metal frozen across the floor of an ancient Mars crater.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 17 July 2026
The companies that did were far more likely to report capturing real value from their AI investments, roughly 76% of them, against about half of the companies where that accountability sat with the CIO or CTO.

— David Zwick, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of capturing

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In addition to pursuing a business degree from one of the top schools in the country, the former America’s Next Top Model enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in 2016, but for far more personal reasons.

— Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 18 July 2026
Such outlets may become wary of pursuing stories that could put them in the Administration’s crosshairs.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

Definition of pursuing

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The untethered AUVs hover above the seabed instead of dragging equipment across it, reducing sediment disturbance and limiting ecosystem disruption.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
Centre-back Chadi Riad flicks the outswinging corner across goal, with his team-mates’ runs dragging Haiti’s defence forward.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026

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