rummaging

• “Vincent - much as I loathe the idea of rummaging around in my past for something that probably doesn't exist, I see the necessity for doing so.”

  Dance Of Death

• “Approximately 11 percent of internally displaced people earned Colombia's minimum wage of $260 per month, while the rest rely on informal work such as rummaging and selling things like cell phone minutes or tamales.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Solis: Colombia's Internally Displaced People

• “Street firms bought mortgages from subprime lenders, they put them into trust accounts, but you can't really find the trust accounts in the SEC files unless you know what the name of the trust accounts are, or you get very lucky kind of rummaging through the files.”

  OpEdNews - Diary: The McClatchy News Service has put out a wonderful series of written and audio-visual reports on the apparent crimes and

• “It was true that she claimed to be fond of 'antiques,' and used to assume a rapturous and knowing air when she confessed how she loved to spend the whole day 'rummaging' in second-hand shops, hunting for”

  Swann's Way

• “The shamed face of the woman convicted her of "rummaging," as she had termed it.”

  A Daughter of the Land

• “A little girl in the eleventh month found her chief pleasure in "rummaging" with trifles in drawers and little boxes.”

  The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.

• “ODB was kind of rummaging through some boxes, apparently looking for booze.”

  PWTorch.com

• “And so, we looked and tried to reconstruct what happened in 2006 and 2007, looking at the SEC filings that Goldman made, which is a trick in itself, because when these Wall Street firms bought mortgages from subprime lenders, they put them into trust accounts, but you can't really find the trust accounts in the SEC files unless you know what the name of the trust accounts are, or you get very lucky kind of rummaging through the files.”

  Democracy Now!

• “I am right behind Dave Prentis's call last week to stand up for public sector workers' pensions," said Ed Balls, rummaging for votes last year via the website Unions Together, and promising to fight the cuts "tooth and nail".”

  The Guardian: Hugh Muir's Diary

• “Josh: If “rummaging through the residuals” was what they are doing, then they would deserve that criticism.”

  Climate Science and Software Quality | Serendipity

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