How to Use ferret out in a Sentence

ferret out

phrasal verb

• Fox News first reported on the curious donation in 2023, but was unable to ferret out the donor's identity.
  — Daniel Klaidman, CBS News, 4 June 2024
• There are some really good stories floating around out there in the vast expanse of the internet, but ferreting out the ones that are worth the read is even more difficult than sorting through all the streaming options.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 22 June 2023
• After Arthur Andersen’s demise, clients were forced to find new accounting firms—and the new auditors would have extra incentive to ferret out any wrongdoing.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
• Your world has just become a film noir thriller as Mercury enters your secretive 8th house, magnifying your ability to read between the lines and ferret out the facts that might otherwise be hidden from view.
  — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 3 June 2024
• Musk has laid off much of the staff at Twitter dedicated to ferreting out misinformation and toxic content and has since emerged as a source of misinformation himself.
  — David Klepper, Fortune, 10 May 2023
• Right now, media-forensics specialists are racing to develop technologies to ferret out fakes.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• The group began spending dozens of hours each week navigating the byzantine web of network infrastructure, trying to ferret out connections between no-name intermediaries to track down Kiwi Farms’s new home.
  — Nitasha Tiku, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
• Most fire testing involves ferreting out faults in individual battery cells—something the industry, which makes millions of those cells each year for all kinds of energy applications, does well, explains Rein.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
• But now everyone’s so excited for the possibility of ferreting out a journalist.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Since taking over he’s transformed the influential site, laying off much of its staff, including workers dedicated to ferreting out misinformation and hate speech.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The verdict is likely to encourage further use of the strategy by prosecutors as a tool to ferret out fraud in nontraditional markets while regulations for digital assets are still being crafted.
  — Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune, 3 May 2023
• Furthermore, pattern matching can mathematically and computationally broaden as the encounters aid in ferreting out the patterns of one language versus the patterns of a different language.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Instead of prompting humility, this confusion has fed Western analysts’ and policymakers’ determination to ferret out the motives behind Russian behavior.
  — Sam Greene, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024