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glean

[gleen] / glin /


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Looking to attract more tech investments, the Indian government announced plans over the weekend to give tech firms a 20-year tax break on overseas revenue gleaned from global data services based in India.

From The Wall Street Journal

The singularity limits what can be gleaned from Rehmet’s stunning upset.

From Salon

For all the concentration on reliability, teams were of course trying to glean any snippets they could about relative pace.

From BBC

A better way to glean underlying demand for manufactured goods is to strip out airplanes and cars.

From MarketWatch

He has mastered an array of twists, trips and throws to allow him to overcome bigger opponents, some of them gleaned from studying older wrestlers.

From The Wall Street Journal