gleaned
Example Sentences
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The badger flicked whatever she’d gleaned from her claw, then pushed upright.
From Literature
Lichtenberg rewrote the top of the story using information he gleaned from an earlier phone conversation with a Wall Street executive.
Carol’s tender response to the question transmits knowledge never to be gleaned firsthand.
I’d gleaned that Ma had been born in China and had been sold as a child to work as a servant to a wealthy Chinese family.
From Literature
Simile uses data gleaned from chats with human beings to train AI agents, who then become the digital twins of those people, said Joon Park, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup’s co-founder and chief executive.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
