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sleuth

[slooth] / sluθ /


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No, you didn’t sign up to be an aircraft sleuth, but this will help avoid disappointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

One new sleuth is Carter Church, a 27-year-old AI engineer who decrypted a 19th-century letter to one of Napoleon's generals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

He’s both spook and sleuth and Nixon makes a particular kind of hero’s transition, from pure thinker to man of action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Arable farmers may soon be able to stop slugs eating their crops thanks to research by a Shropshire-based university and the work of "slug sleuth" farmers.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

In detective stories, when the sleuth revisits the scene of the crime, he nearly always finds a clue that has been overlooked by the ordinary police.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

Many online sleuths were quick to pull out clips from Ethan’s past that might have foreshadowed this incident, including in Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Digital sleuths have for years misidentified accused perpetrators of high-profile shootings and other crimes, exposing them to abuse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

It worked for Carr, who was considered to be less of a threat and more out of his depth by the other sleuths.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Meanwhile, internet sleuths began looking for evidence of previously unreported AI abuse, and started finding it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The sleuths just paper-chased him through the burg.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 9, 1920 by Various


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