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What does ferret out mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word ferret out? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To discover something after searching.
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He had a nose for news and he was an untiring reporter, reaching everywhere to ferret out some news.
No wonder the keen-nosed pigs who ferret out truffles from the roots of certain hardwood trees are so avid in their work.
Sent forth to ferret out the shadowy terrorists, U.S. troops would go woefully unprotected against biological weapons.
He relies on the telephone and on an eye trained by expensive experience to ferret out bad checks.
I have appointed a proven and aggressive Inspector General to ferret out any and all cases of waste and fraud.
Even foreign journalists inside the city have struggled to ferret out information.

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