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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of glean.

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Examples

  • Soft cheese making, from what I gleaned from the internets, is a simple process involving heating milk with some sort of acid (buttermilk, vinegar, lemon juice) until the curds separate from the whey.

    Score: Cheesemaking 1, Sarah 0 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Soft cheese making, from what I gleaned from the internets, is a simple process involving heating milk with some sort of acid (buttermilk, vinegar, lemon juice) until the curds separate from the whey.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Sarah Lenz 2009

  • Meanwhile, I guess they, like the people shown in the following examples gleaned from the internet proudly displaying their disregard for human life, they think they are just the coolest thing since sliced bread.

    2009 August « Mudpuddle 2009

  • As long as any info gleaned is used exclusively for anti-terror efforts, it is justified.

    Domestic surveillance program began soon after 9/11 2009

  • Such value judgments cannot be trusted at all if they're not supported by a clear "perception" of what the work under review actually does, what, to the extent it can be gleaned from the text itself, the aesthetic intention of the work seems to be.

    Book Reviewing 2010

  • Meanwhile, I guess they, like the people shown in the following examples gleaned from the internet proudly displaying their disregard for human life, they think they are just the coolest thing since sliced bread.

    2009 August 19 « Mudpuddle 2009

  • In particular you ought not to call them by a degraded and repulsive nickname, derived quite consciously from one of the most disgusting minor obscenities to be gleaned from the lexicon of pornography.

    Quotha: A comment upon the procedures of the CBO superversive 2010

  • In particular you ought not to call them by a degraded and repulsive nickname, derived quite consciously from one of the most disgusting minor obscenities to be gleaned from the lexicon of pornography.

    superversive: A digression superversive 2010

  • Meanwhile, I guess they, like the people shown in the following examples gleaned from the internet proudly displaying their disregard for human life, they think they are just the coolest thing since sliced bread.

    People that burn my butt…. « Mudpuddle 2009

  • That 6. 7m was gleaned from a 2008 survey of 1,176 net-connected households, 11.6% of which admitted to having used file-sharing software - in other words, only 136 people.

    Boing Boing 2009

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