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sleuth

[slooth] / sluθ /


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Arable farmers may soon be able to stop slugs eating their crops thanks to research by a Shropshire-based university and the work of "slug sleuth" farmers.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

Preparations for the event have been conducted in the utmost secrecy, with top reporters from the usually staid New York Times forced to sleuth through local hotels for hints of the guest list.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Last year, Mansell got connected to the self-styled internet sleuth, whose real name is Benjamin Schneider.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The place where author Naomi Hirahara grew up on McNally Avenue, where her amateur sleuth Mas Arai also lived, is gone.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 26, 2026

Nancy Drew is a smart and resourceful teenage sleuth who began solving mysteries in the 1930s and continues to solve them to this day.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

For posts beyond the reach of my inbox, there’s a risk in putting that information out there because nefarious sleuths can figure out more than you think.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Some are by amateur forensic analysts and would-be internet sleuths with podcast names like The Murder Men that dissect the killing as if it’s a 1980s cold case.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2026

Would-be sleuths with Ratajkowski’s essay and a gossip rag handy will have their work cut out for them.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Data collected by 28 "slug sleuths" has helped researchers from Harper Adams University find environmentally friendly slug control methods in the form of "prediction maps".

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

I want to know if the new man, whom Myers took on soon after you came to town, is one of your sleuths?

From The Last Stroke a detective story by Lynch, Lawrence L.




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