glean

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Recent Examples of glean Below, The Hollywood Reporter breaks down the brief first look to glean scene-by-scene reveals. Cameron K McEwan, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Dec. 2024 This stands in contrast to the 1969 fossil, which preserves just the leaves, limiting what information could be gleaned about the plant. Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024 Then comes the intensive work of assessing studies’ quality, extracting relevant data from works that make the cut, analyzing data to glean insights, and writing a cogent narrative that sums up the past while looking to the future. IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2024 The sales helped spark a scandal, however, when Covid-19 tanked the stock market, leading to suggestions that Loeffler traded on nonpublic information gleaned from her position in the Senate. Dan Alexander, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for glean 
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Verb
  • The remaining Housewives then gathered in Jenna's room, where Brynn retold her story.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Crowds gathered to watch as people competed to resemble some of the most popular celebrities, including Chalamet.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • From there, the Panthers can reap — pun intended — the rewards in 2025.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 15 Jan. 2025
  • However, resisting the urge to panic led many investors to reap the benefits of a resilient U.S. market.
    Wes Moss, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This could be the future of farming, according to Kiera Foti, brand manager at Atlantic Sea Farms, which harvested 1.3m pounds of seaweed last year, the majority of the US seaweed crop.
    Heide Brandes, thehustle.co, 24 Jan. 2025
  • New foliage continues to grow after the initial leaves are harvested.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • One aspect of these raids elicits broad agreement: Their effect was to sow fear.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Such unsupported claims around a lack of independence or integrity of health authorities are precisely what helps to sow seeds of distrust amongst the public—a 2023 Pew Research Centre survey found that trust in scientists in the U.S. has dropped by 14% since 2019.
    Simon Williams, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025

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“Glean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glean. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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