ferret out

phrasal verb

ferreted out; ferreting out; ferrets out

: to find (something, such as information) by careful searching

He's good at ferreting out the facts.

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But the settlement averted what could have been weeks of damaging testimony about phone hacking and other unlawful practices News Group used to ferret out personal information about Harry and other prominent figures more than a decade ago. —

Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025 Hierarchical reasoning, knowledge graphs and attention mechanisms comprise a few of the reasoning components that help AI models connect bits of information together, ferret out relationships and apply higher order thinking to make and prioritize conclusions. —

Clint Boulton, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 All kinds of essays, narratives, stories, encyclopedias, poems, and the like are scrutinized in a mathematical and computational fashion to ferret out the nature of human writing. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025 Echoes of Wisconsin senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award, which ferreted out stupid spending, or the Reagan-era Grace Commission. —

James Lileks, National Review, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ferret out