I. noun
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Ferrets die: Two ferrets died when fire swept through a garden shed in Ilkley Grove, Hartlepool.
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After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret .
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In 1973, a small group of ferrets discovered in South Dakota were captured for a propagation program.
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None of this matters at all provided the ferrets work efficiently.
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Take your pick A compartmental ferret-box - the ferrets sitting placidly.
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The result is that the growing ferrets show no shyness to human contact.
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The white ferret , for example, is more visible, while the polecat is less so.
II. verb
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around
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Male speaker It's all over now although the papers are still ferreting around .
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The very next day I started ferreting around in the woods and came upon the most magnificent fortress of a sett.
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The reporters keep on ferreting around .
out
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She ought to have been on the job, she thought, ferreting out facts about Hereward and Amy.
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It has one reporter who does nothing but ferret out supposed left-wing involvement in the membership of any organization the Tribune dislikes.
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But how else were you to approach the massive problem of ferreting out some meaning from an inscrutable universe?
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Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
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Fortunately, archaeology breeds rebels who care for nothing but ferreting out the truth.
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The opponents also wanted to ferret out the guilty, but they insisted that the rights protected.
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How we used to ferret out the info, gradually piecing together the clues.
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To ferret out only whole words, press the spacebar once before and once after typing the search word.
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Fortunately, archaeology breeds rebels who care for nothing but ferreting out the truth.
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It has one reporter who does nothing but ferret out supposed left-wing involvement in the membership of any organization the Tribune dislikes.
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It would have been a sad disappointment to anyone ferreting in the top drawer of his desk.
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So it wouldn't have just been insurance investigators ferreting about - it would have been the world's press as well.
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Thank goodness for the debunkers like Hymes who ferret out the frauds and expose the poseurs.
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The opponents also wanted to ferret out the guilty, but they insisted that the rights protected.
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To ferret out only whole words, press the spacebar once before and once after typing the search word.