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[gleen] / glin /


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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

Yields typically edge up or down based on the shifting outlook for short-term rates set by the Fed, which investors glean from economic data and comments from Fed officials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

You always want your work to have impact, you want it to have meaning, you want people to glean something from it that’s relevant to their own lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

A forensic linguist told the BBC it's possible to glean crucial information about a person from just a few sentences.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Either one could now be gleaned, and if the edict was followed—and the Scythedom would make certain that it was—one would glean the other.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025

He also writes the newsletter “Humans Being,” which gleans life lessons from movies, books and television, for The Atlantic.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022

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

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2021

Commissioner Danielle Outlaw added that she will be “leaning on what the investigation gleans to answer unanswered questions.”

From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2020

“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

Publicly available flight data will have to be compared with information gleaned from information obtained from the aircraft’s black boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

Citra learned to see the signs of the “stagnant,” as Scythe Curie called them—although Citra was not as convinced as she about their readiness to be gleaned.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Despite being in charge of several enormous companies, Musk regularly wades into ostensibly local disputes, not just in Belfast but across Europe, apparently gleaning much of his knowledge from people he follows on X.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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

Rowan had been on four gleaning expeditions with Goddard so far.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman




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