glean

Example Sentences

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“I am an Usher of wandering souls,” he said, trying to glean some dignity from the words.

From Literature

Lichtenberg rewrote the top of the story using information he gleaned from an earlier phone conversation with a Wall Street executive.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carol’s tender response to the question transmits knowledge never to be gleaned firsthand.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’d gleaned that Ma had been born in China and had been sold as a child to work as a servant to a wealthy Chinese family.

From Literature

Simile uses data gleaned from chats with human beings to train AI agents, who then become the digital twins of those people, said Joon Park, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup’s co-founder and chief executive.

From The Wall Street Journal