ferret
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The ferret is thought to have been brought in deliberately in the 1980s to control pests.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
Such information can be hard enough to ferret out in democracies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
They’re all law-abiding people, and this directive ostensibly aims to ferret out terrorists and criminals.
From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025
We will ferret out students who protest against my policies.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
Moody started to limp toward Crabbe, Goyle, and the ferret, which gave a terrified squeak and took off, streaking toward the dungeons.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
In a world-first, Rathlin Island, off the coast of County Antrim, has eradicated ferrets.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
Some ferrets that drank the raw milk became infected, but those that ate the raw milk cheese did not.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
A 2022 study in mice and ferrets showed that a universal flu vaccine NIH plans to support has promise.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2025
He found the ferrets were able to transmit the virus to one another via respiratory droplets, and it killed 100% of the infected animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
Cluny turned back to the ferrets, weasels and stoats.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
The Agriculture Department ferreted data from 28 states and says it found nearly 186,000 dead recipients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Tran ferreted out a Social Security number for the patient from a confidential report about her test result, then plugged that into the databases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
“Good cops want bad cops ferreted out,” Jenkins said in a recent interview.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
More recently, tracers ferreted out cases of Ebola in West Africa and other countries and helped beat back the disease.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2020
Gaheris, hovering round the edge, ferreted far the dirk.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The Spanish credited her with ferreting out plots against them and helping to recruit Indigenous warriors to Cortés’ ranks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
Twitter has drastically reduced its staff focused on ferreting out misinformation, hate speech and extremist content since it was bought by Elon Musk.
From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023
In the year or so since Colombia Rural Vital introduced its initiative in Orito, she had become a medical detective of sorts, traveling from village to village, cultivating sources and ferreting out unreported deaths.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
At the recent Television Critics Association press tour, Manville claimed that she's not too shabby at ferreting out information herself.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2022
She was always saying she was—“I understand why you’re saying that, Willy”—but secretly she was ferreting out my neuroses.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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