sleuth
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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
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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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