Meaning & use
Ferreting
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Searching persistently and cleverly for something, often something hidden.
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The journalist spent weeks ferreting out the truth behind the scandal.
She was ferreting through old boxes in the attic looking for the missing photographs.
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The word derives from hunting with ferrets, small animals once used to drive rabbits out of their burrows.
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