ferreting

verb

Definition of ferretingnext
present participle of ferret
as in hounding

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferreting
  1. capturing
  2. pursuing
  3. hunting
  4. trailing
Verb
  • Mangold based his film on history but was mostly concerned with capturing the essence of the era.
    Grant Wong, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Stephen McGee, the book’s primary photographer, moved to Detroit 20 years ago and fell in love with Michigan Central to the point of taking upwards of three million photos capturing it literally and figuratively in darkness and light.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of capturing
Verb
  • But pursuing a cease-fire agreement that does not address the underlying drivers of the conflict is unlikely to work.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The revelation that the grand jury has heard more testimony in recent weeks suggests prosecutors are still pursuing new evidence.
    Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of pursuing
Verb
  • Police are hunting for a gang of thieves believed to have carried out 11 robberies during a five-month spree — all pulled off in a few-block area in the Bronx.
    Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Out of 74 observed interactions between the two species, 31 involved the squirrels actively hunting the voles.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of hunting
Verb
  • Then with 47 seconds left, trailing 106-104, Curry dribbled into a stepback 3 from the left corner for the lead.
    Anthony Slater, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average, with a trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 27, and the S&P 500 Index’s P/E at 24, are both distorted by tech stocks, such as Nvidia (NVDA).
    Lawrence Carrel, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of trailing
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