Word: ferretted
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...system at an alarming rate. Tracking down the counterfeiters is not easy, says Dai Weiwen, head of the exchange section of the Bank of China, because "our methods of detecting fakes are primitive." In recent months, however, banks have begun to install equipment such as money scanners to ferret out forgeries. The Industrial and Commerical Bank of China even fines employees who fail to detect fake currency...
...point of scholarship has been, and will remain, to ferret out the truth in whatever form it presents itself...
...university can really rival the CIA and FBI in its ability to ferret out information about people and...how much money they have," said Greg Stone...
...dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it 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 seeing St. Augustine flattened...
...distant past, The Crimson's newsroom was populated mainly by the first model of journalists--the Woodward and Bernstein wannabes. Our job was to ferret out the good, the bad and the just plain ugly at Harvard and offer it to the people...