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ferret

noun as in snoop

noun as in snooper

verb as in root

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But the island will not be able to declare itself ferret free until next year.

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In a 2020 interview with The Ferret news service, she said that coverage of claims she was “legally male” had unleashed “a host of hate” and that the focus on having a gender recognition certificate was racist as well as transphobic because it failed to take in Indian cultural norms.

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Presidential campaigns routinely research potential vice-presidential nominees in order to ferret out any potentially embarrassing revelations.

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“So the adversarial system itself is supposed to ferret that out.”

But Mr Boakai said the court would "help ferret the causes and effects of the violence" and bring about "justice and healing".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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