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: May 27, 2024
\GLEEN\ verb
What It Means
To glean is to gather or collect something bit by bit, or in a gradual way. Glean can also be used to mean “to search (something) carefully” and “to find out.”
// Neil has a collection of antique tools gleaned from flea markets and garage sales.
// They spent days gleaning the files for information.
// The police used old-fashioned detective work to glean his whereabouts.
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