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sleuth

/slooth/US // sluθ //UK // (sluːθ) //

侦探,侦查员,侦察员,侦探者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a detective.
    • : a bloodhound, a dog used for tracking.
  1. 1
    • : to track or trail, as a detective.

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Examples

  • Judge Thomas Hogan said he knew “the government was trying” but questioned why new video was only found that day by online sleuths.

  • Another online sleuth built an algorithm that searched the most popular Fenn-based YouTube shows to see if anyone named “Jack” had been mentioned before Stuef’s name was revealed to the public.

  • It’s a bunch of open-access data that anyone can submit and that lots of amateur sleuths can then comb through.

  • The reason finding the very first people with covid-19 is important is it would let disease sleuths look for shared factors, like jobs or habits.

  • Apps meant disease sleuths wouldn’t have to rely on an individual’s memory, and they could ease strain on the authorities monitoring an outbreak.

  • As a new season of the hit TV show debuts, Noah Charney asks if the famous sleuth was really all that good after all.

  • If only there were some massive government apparatus available to us to sift through the metadata and sleuth these fakers out.

  • Some firms charge several thousands of dollars per hour for the sleuth work of a team of six to eight investigators.

  • [Styleite] On the DL: Kate Bosworth was sleuth in announcing her engagement to actor Michael Polish.

  • Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories and four novels starring his fictional sleuth.

  • In arguing points of law he had the tenacity of a bull-dog and the keenness of a sleuth-hound.

  • "Red-headed party found at Woodstock," the valiant sleuth had wired with unusual delicacy and caution.

  • All we've got to do now is to play the sleuth when he leaves the cabin.

  • A thousand reporters, cunning as monkeys, active as sleuth-hounds, are on the track.

  • But she was too preoccupied with the importance of the discovery to dwell on his gifts as a sleuth.