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Recent Examples of glean
Such technologies are useful to study chicken development and glean insights that can also be applied to other mammals and even humans.
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CBS News, 19 May 2026
Its final destination is a metallic asteroid of the same name that scientists hope to study in order to glean valuable insights about Earth's own core.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 May 2026
For the past decade as Google’s Data Editor, my job has been to glean insights from the world’s largest publicly available dataset.
—Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
What narration there is between numbers sometimes offers crumbs of insight, but any connecting thread to the material is a challenge to glean.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 3 May 2026
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CBS News, 19 May 2026
Its final destination is a metallic asteroid of the same name that scientists hope to study in order to glean valuable insights about Earth's own core.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 May 2026
For the past decade as Google’s Data Editor, my job has been to glean insights from the world’s largest publicly available dataset.
—Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
What narration there is between numbers sometimes offers crumbs of insight, but any connecting thread to the material is a challenge to glean.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 3 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glean
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Movie night is a chance for the Islanders to gather together to witness some of the major moments and own up and apologize.—
Carolyn Burt,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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Helicopter footage captured by NBC4 showed police tape cordoning off a section of the residential street, where a large number of emergency responders were gathered.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2026
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The provision allows certain individuals to reap the kind of benefits that are mostly accrued by large money managers with close relationships to their IPO underwriters.—
Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
1 June 2026
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Nicholas, on the other hand, is already reaping the rewards of the World Cup.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 June 2026
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An edible garden by landscape designer Lily Kwong offers overseas travelers an introduction to local plants, like the butterfly pea flower, which is commonly used in Peranakan cuisine, and fragrant pandan, which is harvested for use in some of the hotel’s food and drinks.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Global spending on agentic AI is growing exponentially, and the low-hanging use cases are largely harvested by now.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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But Cepeda and Petro on Sunday night sowed doubt in the result and claimed — so far without evidence — that hundreds of thousands of votes were manipulated and that foreign actors interfered with the result.—
Megan Janetsky,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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In the springtime, simply push aside the dead plants and sow your seeds in the ground.—
Special to The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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“Glean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glean. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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