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[gleen] / glin /


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Kusum Ailawadi, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College who has done research on private-label brands, said retailers can glean information about manufacturers’ costs based on how they price products.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mr. White, an emeritus professor of history at the University of Sydney, studied antebellum newspapers, legal documents, travelogues and paintings to glean information about black New Yorkers’ occupations, housing and leisure activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

You always want your work to have impact, you want it to have meaning, you want people to glean something from it that’s relevant to their own lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Through these former employees and their access to "sensitive projects, trusted partner relationships, proprietary manufacturing techniques, and unreleased products," Apple claims OpenAI has been able to glean details of its product plans and operations.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Later I realized that this was simply a technique on the part of the authorities to glean information from us, and I had fallen for it.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

And, who gets to monetize the insights that AI gleans?

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

He also writes the newsletter “Humans Being,” which gleans life lessons from movies, books and television, for The Atlantic.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

Next weekend we will see whether "Lovecraft Country" gleans any Emmy wins out of its 18 nominations.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2021

She suggests trying it, and thinking about all the food, music, culture and other contributions the United States gleans from Mexico.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2020

“What if another scythe gleans her during the off years?”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"The defensive posture I have gleaned from the DA's statements leads me to believe that they recognise that there were failures and they are trying to excuse them," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

It’s also depriving them of the way entry-level workers have long gleaned the expertise to become valuable players later on—by getting in the reps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

That’s my understanding that was gleaned from one of the juror notes.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

She’s extremely interested in the ways problematic movies can be reclaimed by the real-life minority figures depicted in them, and what can be gleaned from studying these films’ merits.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Either one could now be gleaned, and if the edict was followed—and the Scythedom would make certain that it was—one would glean the other.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

A gleaning group has saved £1m worth of fruit and vegetables that would have been left in field and donated them to food banks.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Downstairs in the basement, a team of covert listeners followed their chatter, gleaning vital insights into Germany's war plans.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Ultimately, gleaning what is happening in the brain could change anesthesia, helping it to be redesigned or personalized to more closely resemble natural sleep rather than a coma-like one, Helfrich said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The skeptics in my life believe L’Belle-Tividad may just be really good at collecting information about people, gleaning details from other readings and our demographic data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

The mass gleaning at Magnetic Propulsion Laboratory, although never reported officially, was big news.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman


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