sleuth
Example Sentences
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Online sleuths poring over government files have drawn a tenuous connection between the 90-year-old company and Leon Black, the former CEO of its private-equity owner, Apollo Global Management.
This has become a common — and increasingly controversial — side of high-profile crime investigations: armies of amateur sleuths descending into a community and creating friction with police.
From Los Angeles Times
Internet sleuths and commentators have speculated widely on the case, and pointed fingers at members of the family in the process.
Some sleuths have resorted to studying body language as they try to pierce the veil of secrecy.
Williams is just one of dozens of curious observers and amateur sleuths who have descended on the area.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.