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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 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 Zelensky recalled the initial moments of the war, when much of the world expected Kyiv to fall within days and U.S. officials offered to ferret him out of the city to escape assassination.—David L. Stern, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ferret
Fighting his corner all the while is dogged Australian human rights lawyer Jen Robinson and Stella Moris, another loyal member of his legal team, who eventually became Assange’s wife, and mother to two of his children.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
22 May 2025
In fact, in one area that has dogged most American public schools, the military schools have stood out.
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Anna Mulrine Grobe,
Christian Science Monitor,
20 May 2025
The markets will have activities to attract vendors such as farmers selling seasonal produce and cottage bakers who could hawk their homemade goods, from breads to pastries, Carlson said.
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Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Mar. 2025
Others wander around hawking phone chargers and car-cleaning products.
The company has been hounded by bad news, falling since 2019 and giving back 78.6% of its ten-year 2009-2019 bull market.
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Bill Sarubbi,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
Three issues are expected to hound the next pope: clerical abuse, poor finances of the Vatican and the ongoing cultural war between progressives and conservatives.
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