Word: ferreter
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...ferret. Anheuser-Busch strikes again. As sick as I am of the frogs, and as uncompelling as the lizards are, this ad was hilarious...
...more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase...
...knows perfectly well what lines he is not supposed to cross, yet time after time he turns big puppy eyes on his mother or father and asks some outrageous question that causes an eruption. Yet despite his mischievous intentions, Mendel asks his questions out of a sincere desire to ferret out the mystery surrounding...
...companies are searching out plants. Drug companies and scientific institutions are collaborating on field research all over the globe, racing to study as many natural substances as possible before they, or the native people who use them, disappear. Some work with the handful of ethnobotanists like Cox to ferret out drug candidates based on their knowledge of indigenous peoples. Others use a broad-brush approach, mass-collecting plants whose chemical compounds might contribute to new drugs...
...smattering of Aristotle. How much richer his works might have been had the blessings of post-modernism been his. He might, for example, have been free to draw openly on incest as a theme instead of dropping little hints of it here and there for the scholars to ferret out 400 years later. And what about recovered memory? That's a dramatic device he never dreamed...