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They have used a variety of methods to ferret out information, including searching for DEI programs or even just emails with the keywords "climate change" in them.

Apparently the Platonic method of ferreting out hidden meanings was key to the neocons' certainty that Iraqi WMDs existed.

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

The company recently released tools that can generate summaries of suspicious incidents and ferret out methods hackers use to obscure their intentions.

“We’ll work with the school system to try to ferret out how this happened,” Newport News Commonwealth’s Attorney Howard Gwynn said at a news conference.