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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 To bring people in and keep them, Caldwell said that along with offering more sign-on bonuses and time off, small and midsize companies in Silicon Valley are offering more competitive stock options along with referral bonuses to help ferret the right people out in a mostly remote world.—Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Nov. 2021 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 See All Example Sentences for ferret
The California native held a lead for the entire final round on Sunday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational before Russell Henley hawked him down with an incredible chip-in eagle on the par-5 16th hole, erasing a three-shot deficit in the final four holes to win his biggest career title.
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Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
15 Mar. 2025
The sites hawk their wares with scientific specificity: microprinting in dots per inch, card thickness in micrometers (polycarbonate stock for that stiff, authentic feel) and various types of laminates.
Like the first two matchups, TCU led most of the way as the Horned Frogs hounded Baylor on defense.
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Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Mar. 2025
The children of celebrities don’t usually have a typical childhood—whether they are hounded by the paparazzi or attending glamorous Hollywood events with their celebrity parents.
In a Facebook post, the National Institute for Emergency Medicine in Thailand said around 320 workers were on the site at the time of the collapse and 20 are trapped in the lift shafts.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
28 Mar. 2025
These are some signs that you’re trapped in a cycle of too much hustle and stress.
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