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Taylor ferrets out the secret with her bloodthirsty relentlessness and immediately raises pandemonium.

The controversy prompted a more broadly-based movement to ferret out other Vietnamese celebrities suspected of conspiring against the country.

The fact that Duffy is wasting his time by making these threats and combing through awarded contracts to ferret out such putative violations is, however, a settled question: Of course he is.

But Ulman is too skeptical to suggest these yahoos could redeem themselves by ferreting out the real problems happening in her home country.

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency set up its own internal team at the agency to ferret out information from its files.

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

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