uncover
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In their 2021 book Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa uncover a broader angle on Graham’s ponying up to power.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
I lift the can to uncover a slow-braised short rib and mashed potatoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Instead of focusing on a handful of extraordinary events, researchers now have hundreds of observations they can compare, allowing them to uncover larger patterns in how black holes and other compact objects form and evolve.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026
A bottom-up investment approach can uncover individual stocks exhibiting exceptional relative strength, identifying the names most likely to lead when the broader group regains momentum.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
If we were to stop asking questions, then how would we ever uncover the unknowns of the universe?
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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His tone has grown more strident as he uncovers more examples of apparent fraud, which he attributes to junior researchers chasing career advancement and senior professors letting misconduct go unchecked to burnish their own résumés.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
If the inspection uncovers major issues, that information can be used as leverage to either exit the contract or negotiate a lower price or other concessions.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
A conservator uncovers the shard, which bears an intense blue figure of a skylark — evidence, at least to the reader, that Alouette’s recipe endured, and a symbol of how both she and Sasha escaped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
The study uncovers a hidden mechanism by which cancer cells spread immunosuppressive PD-L1 through extracellular vesicles, allowing tumors to weaken immune responses far beyond their immediate environment.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 28, 2026
The “essential unity of science,” as he described it, means that “an advance of the horizon of knowledge in any direction uncovers territory of all the sciences.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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She tells a cashier at a place called Taco King that she will report him for having uncovered hair if he doesn’t give her a free order of fries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
His deceit was uncovered when Helen's son smelt a rat and applied for Clare's Law, external, where you can ask if someone has a history of abusive offending.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Archaeologists have uncovered crystals at numerous sites containing Homo remains, suggesting that early human relatives deliberately collected these unusual stones as far back as 780,000 years ago.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
A 2022 a BBC Disclosure investigation uncovered claims of inappropriate behaviour by Watt towards female staff, and revealed that Brewdog violated import laws and fabricated many of its marketing stories.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
His mind ran through all the research he’d uncovered in the last couple of days.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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Hatton says the price paid reflects the time and resources that went into uncovering the specimen.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
At one point, Weist describes uncovering that former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani maintained a fine-art photography practice while simultaneously waging a highly public censorship battle against the Brooklyn Museum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
That previous study, entitled “The Level and Persistence of Growth Rates,” found that “the odds of an investor successfully uncovering the next stellar growth stock are about the same as correctly calling coin tosses.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Operating to Taiwan’s east allows China to study the waters there, potentially uncovering hiding spots for enemy submarines, Dahm said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Day and night they chipped and hacked, pickaxed and burrowed deeper, uncovering whitened bones by the ton while the deranged clergyman rambled about, frothing like a lunatic.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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