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[gleen] / glin /


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She can glean more detailed information in Mandarin and feels more confident filling out school forms in her native language.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Adam Parker and his team at Trivariate Research looked at thousands of sharp drawdowns over a quarter century to glean clues about when quickly dropping stocks tend to keep falling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Kusum Ailawadi, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College who has done research on private-label brands, said retailers can glean information about manufacturers’ costs based on how they price products.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

And while tech journalists and academics might pore over them trying to glean nuggets of meaning, these executive manifestos are not necessarily landing with the general public.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“I never glean children,” Scythe Curie told her.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

And, who gets to monetize the insights that AI gleans?

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

He added Thursday that the program gleans granular data from players via motion-tracking devices.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2023

Next weekend we will see whether "Lovecraft Country" gleans any Emmy wins out of its 18 nominations.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2021

In the course of his investigation, the commissario interviews one of the garbagemen, or spazzini, from whom he gleans a damning piece of evidence.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2021

“What if another scythe gleans her during the off years?”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"The defensive posture I have gleaned from the DA's statements leads me to believe that they recognise that there were failures and they are trying to excuse them," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

That’s my understanding that was gleaned from one of the juror notes.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

She’s extremely interested in the ways problematic movies can be reclaimed by the real-life minority figures depicted in them, and what can be gleaned from studying these films’ merits.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Many of the lessons Trey gleaned from the stars at dad’s work — first with the Angels and then, the last eight years, the Dodgers — came from observing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The woman I gleaned today asked me the oddest question.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

A gleaning group has saved £1m worth of fruit and vegetables that would have been left in field and donated them to food banks.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Ultimately, gleaning what is happening in the brain could change anesthesia, helping it to be redesigned or personalized to more closely resemble natural sleep rather than a coma-like one, Helfrich said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The skeptics in my life believe L’Belle-Tividad may just be really good at collecting information about people, gleaning details from other readings and our demographic data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

The budget figures will be keenly watched by energy industry experts, with the hopes of gleaning insights into where Saudi Arabia expects oil revenues to head in the near future.

From Barron's ● Dec. 2, 2025

“You’d never have worry about being gleaned either.... A scythe’s family is immune from gleaning for as long as that scythe’s alive.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman


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