How To Use Ferret out In A Sentence

  • The Keter benefited from a larger staff of human proofreaders and the additional assistance of computer collation which was able to detect many errors that even the very conscientious human team had failed to ferret out.
  • On behalf of the ordinary reader, you feel he will ferret out the truth if anyone can.
  • Media organizations, having decided that Levy's disappearance is a major story, should explore every lead to ferret out the truth.
  • No wonder the keen-nosed pigs who ferret out truffles from the roots of certain hardwood trees are so avid in their work.
  • The team is trying to ferret out missing details.
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  • He relies on the telephone and on an eye trained by expensive experience to ferret out bad checks.
  • The new program is meant to ferret out problem cops.
  • The good folks at the American Physical Society have noticed this, and have even initiated a contest to help ferret out the reason for the equation's appearance.
  • Regional Force/Provincial Force units, known as ruff-puffs — which were supposed to ferret out VC or NVA cadre activities on the village level. Rogue Warrior
  • Each day he and his small team ferret out the wholesale price of produce, a difficult task, given that transactions between producers and wholesalers aren't disclosed and prices aren't displayed.
  • Perhaps someone can ferret out an answer on what the typical/average/median no-show rate is. Much better by day (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • Certainly she didn't fool many women, as McCain operatives hoped; what an astonishing insult to assume that women would vote for someone, anyone, with homogametic chromosomes, regardless of her positions (such as anyone could ferret out, that is, beyond vague anti-government and "pro-faith" assertions). Boulder Daily Camera Most Viewed
  • After my Apple news site, Think Secret, published details of Apple's Mac mini two weeks before the product was officially announced, the company sued me in an attempt to ferret out the leaker.
  • When Congress convened, wealthy dealers in securities swarmed around Federal Hall on Wall Street, buttonholing members and trying to ferret out the details of Hamilton's program.
  • Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
  • The Nation, unmortgaged to any economic interest or political power, will continue to challenge our downsized politics of excluded alternatives, propose bold ideas, ferret out the truth, expose corruption and abuse of power, and hold our politicians accountable. Katrina vanden Heuvel: A Transformational Presidency?
  • Villagers, of course, will be trying to ferret out the lycanthropes, while the Werewolves will be endeavoring to cast suspicion on the innocent.
  • That enormous logistical inconvenience guaranteed that few people beyond private eyes and document retrieval companies -- working for paying clients -- would crosscheck and ferret out the revealing information public records yield. Kathy McManus: Little-Understood Responsibilities in Navigating Online Criminal Records
  • We sent award-winning investigative journalist Gregory Smith to ferret out the answers.
  • Do you think index finger inking combined with a reproduction of our slate of choice tatooed in barcode form on our person (I love cop talk) will ferret out fraud. Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers
  • The media generally ignore them - and only the most motivated consumers ferret out the facts about what ought to be as natural as a walk in the garden.
  • Directors always see something in you that you have to kind of ferret out, in a way.
  • According to critics, the result was to incentivize public interest groups and lawyers to ferret out even essentially victimless corporate wrongdoing - consisting of minor, technical infractions.
  • Sent forth to ferret out the shadowy terrorists, U.S. troops would go woefully unprotected against biological weapons.
  • He had a nose for news and he was an untiring reporter, reaching everywhere to ferret out some news.
  • When instructors are not acting as proctors or detectives hoping to stifle cheating or ferret out dishonest students, some are dreaming up schemes of their own.
  • The team is trying to ferret out missing details.

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