glean
to gather information or material bit by bit
Word origin: From Old French glener, to gather grain left by reapers.
Glean in a sentence
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From scattered letters and ledgers, historians gleaned a picture of daily life in the village.
From scattered shipping records, the historian gleaned a detailed picture of the colony's diet.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “glean” well
Glean means to gather information or material slowly and in small amounts. Its connotation, drawn from collecting leftover grain after a harvest, is of patient, piecemeal accumulation.
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