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  • verb Present participle of rummage.

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Examples

  • 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 Preston, Douglas 2005

  • 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.

    Michael Solis: Colombia's Internally Displaced People 2010

  • 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.

    Michael Solis: Colombia's Internally Displaced People 2010

  • 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.

    Michael Solis: Colombia's Internally Displaced People 2010

  • 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 2009

  • 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 Marcel Proust 1896

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

    A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • 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. William T. Preyer 1869

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

    PWTorch.com 2008

  • 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! 2009

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