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Sleuths are able to track the shipments, however, by following occasional pings from the shadow ships’ transponders, which are sometimes turned on for safety to navigate narrow straits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Sleuths in the Beyhive subsequently discovered that this is a reference to the star's ancestral surname: Her maternal grandparents were called Beyincé - but the spelling was changed on her mother Tina's birth certificate.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

Sleuths, some of them admittedly obsessed by the case, still flock to online discussion boards to trade hypotheses.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

Sleuths on the Internet — including one in Australia and one in Spain — as well as a photo archivist in California have found four people who might have made the film.

From Washington Post • Jan. 17, 2022

No doubt the popular conception of the detective has been derived from the flash literature in which the "Old Sleuths" have formed the pervading figure.

From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.