sleuthing

• Dr. Jauhar sees House as unrealistic because real doctors wouldn't have time for its kind of sleuthing, but he likes watching it as a depiction of medicine as it should be rather than as it is They're both right, and the questions they raise, both practical and philosophical, are ones that bear periodic reexamination in connection with any kind of dramatic or fictional writing. —  AnalogSFF,March2006
• Yemeni super-sleuthing uncovered an international conspiracy in the Gulf of Aden - the US is the source of Somali piracy! —  The Jawa Report
• The plot thickens when Hannah stumbles onto a gory scene and the sleuthing is off! —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• So when a dog's owner turns up dead, Ellie must bone up on her sleuthing-and perk up her ears to find a killer. —  COMPUTER COLONICS
• In an example of crack scientific sleuthing, the University of Utah researcher and colleagues mined a trove of cancer records and a sprawling genealogical archive to uncover the source of a genetic mutation responsible for a rare form of colon cancer. —  Boston.com Most Popular

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