gleans

Definition of gleansnext
present tense third-person singular of glean

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Verb
  • Your curious mind gathers options quickly, but that also puts you in danger of getting distracted or taking on too much at once.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2026
  • This year’s event gathers politicians, innovators, researchers and documentary professionals to discuss the future of the audiovisual industry, focusing specifically on the state of information, technology and shifting notions of truth.
    Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Perhaps some enterprising Democrat or Republican will come along who exhibits more faith in our constitutional system, governs with the foresight that there are more elections to come than just the next one — and reaps the benefits.
    David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And if the hypotheticals are not enough to dissuade, history is littered with teams trading away their future for immediate glories, seeing their plans implode, and being left with a ruinous future that becomes a hopeless present while another team reaps the benefits.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • The Chesapeake Bay region is one of the nation's most important oyster-producing areas, with more than 12 billion oysters in Maryland waters alone and harvests generating millions in revenue, according to state and federal data.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The first layer, called the Level-1 Trigger, or L1T, harvests 100,000 events per second, and the second layer, called the High-Level Trigger, or HLT, plucks 1,000 of those events to save for later analysis.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The Middle Tennessee farm plants half a million bulbs for its tulip festival and is one of the largest tulip U-pick operations in the South.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • During the first act, McCarthy plants several characters in and around the charmingly outdated hotel where Ohm is staying for the viewer to suspect of wrongdoing later on.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Gleans.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gleans. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.

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