Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Things that have been collected bit by bit.
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- noun Plural form of
gleaning . (act of harvesting leftover crops) - noun the crops leftover from farmers' fields after they have been
commercially harvested , or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest
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Examples
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These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan.
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These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan.
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These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan.
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So it was last week when, timed carefully to cash in on the Easter holiday, the “serious” editors of National Geographic chose to release the gleanings from a sheaf of rags and call them “The Gospel of Judas.”
Think Progress » Shep Smith Embarrassed by O’Reilly’s ‘War on Easter’? 2006
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These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan.
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These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan.
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Bella called our gleanings, "the harvest of a roving eye;" and children who live in the country will have no difficulty in gathering in such a harvest, as will suffice for the making of dozens of frames.
Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various
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This is the comment Mr. Doug Wilson sent us after the appearance of the previous "gleanings": "I think either demodicosis or demodicidosis is reasonably well formed.
OUPblog 2008
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This is the comment Mr. Doug Wilson sent us after the appearance of the previous "gleanings": "I think either demodicosis or demodicidosis is reasonably well formed.
OUPblog 2008
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This is the comment Mr. Doug Wilson sent us after the appearance of the previous "gleanings": "I think either demodicosis or demodicidosis is reasonably well formed.
OUPblog Ashley 2008
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