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glean

[gleen] / glin /


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The meaning I glean from your words is this: It’s not so much that you yearn for him romantically and fear you made a mistake simply because your life is empty without him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

For all the concentration on reliability, teams were of course trying to glean any snippets they could about relative pace.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

A better way to glean underlying demand for manufactured goods is to strip out airplanes and cars.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

Just as AI can personalize the ads you see online, bad actors are using it to glean personal information that enables them to create custom-tailored scams quickly and on a large scale.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“I never glean children,” Scythe Curie told her.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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