gleaning

Example Sentences

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Many travel to greet the returning prisoners in the hope of gleaning information about their loved ones.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

The drovers would forage along the way, picking berries, acorns and gleaning corn for the birds to eat.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

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

From this letter, I’m gleaning that reckless spending isn’t in your nature — and I don’t want my advice to cause some sort of overcorrection.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 29, 2025

It's absurd that we are free to determine our method and criteria for gleaning, but not the number of gleanings we accomplish.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman