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ferret

noun as in snoop

noun as in snooper

verb as in root

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A decade ago, scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health used ferrets to engineer a highly lethal flu virus.

Two researchers responded and were funded, and they discovered genetic changes that regulated H5N1 transmissibility in ferrets.

His incarceration had made him less social and he was now like a lonely ferret without much to say.

Illuminated in the beam of the headlights, the ferret and the ranger stared at each other for one and a half minutes, before it padded away into the night.

While there are no immediate plans to reintroduce the ferret at TBNG, it may well be the best existing site across the species’ range in 12 western states, Mexico, and Canada.

Ferret is a carefully chosen comparison, implying diligence but absolutely no imagination.

What I saw was a careful and ingenious reporter ferret out a fraud with care.

That alone provides a powerful incentive for civil society to try to ferret out the numbers.

They were used to ferret rebel fighters out of their strongholds.

Reich, the former American diplomat, says he thinks Morales might just be crazy enough to ferret Snowden to La Paz.

A soldier is not a conjurer that he should be handed over a fully laden ship and told to ferret out a fuse key.

Where you like; there must be two or three remaining in the neighborhood, so ferret them out and bring them here.

Oh, if he'd a notion I was within twenty miles of him, he'd ferret me out to pay off old grudges.

I stuck my hand down, and it was given a vicious bite by a white, pink-eyed ferret Paul was carrying there.

He was endeavoring to pierce the darkness with his ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighboring church clock struck twelve.

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On this page you'll find 279 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ferret, such as: busybody, butt in, detective, eavesdropper, gumshoe, and meddler.

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

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