ferreting

Well, you do have a way of ferreting out information.

But ferreting out the truth may be hard nine months after the attack.

Do we fail, and the police will start ferreting around.

But let us look at the weather's influence on ferreting.

The population was controlled in that way instead of by ferreting.

Often such assets are little known, and it takes some ferreting to find out about them.

Large amounts of time are taken up with ferreting out where to buy basic needs, he said.

But do proceed, for there are things worth ferreting out.

We just have to be vigilant in ferreting out information.

But you have no right to confidential data, or to attempt ferreting them out.

She was a large woman with a small pointed face and steady ferreting eyes.

I went over it three times with a journalist's eye for ferreting out details.

Throughout his career Cole had a nose for ferreting out a story.

In any case, he was very good at ferreting.

You add that I am "actually quite good at ferreting out many of the instances where this is, indeed, the case."

The man had a sixth sense when it came to ferreting out his gifts.

With rare exceptions, they simply can't do a better job of ferreting out and using information than the market as a whole.

I must now draw a distinction between two types of ferreting.

He came into this too late to put enough of his own men inside to be really effective at ferreting out who belonged to whom.

"We're committed to ferreting out every fact we can," he said.

In its short history, the process of ferreting out mass murderers has become more effective.

Ferreting them out has become a kind of sport.

You know, having the two of us on this assignment will work rather well at ferreting secrets out.

It is never likely that you will succeed in ferreting out the secrets of the past.

Some of them were damnably good at ferreting out lies.