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Examples
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All the same, despite their support, she has had to become an expert at winkling out money from a variety of sources.
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It's hard enough for a presenter to establish a connection with an invisible audience over the airwaves, let alone winkling the best out of an interviewee they can't see.
Rewind Radio: 5 Live Drive; PM; Ronnie Wood; Saturday Live – review 2011
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From " your bunny has a good nose " a line that got an investment banker charged with insider trading in the 1980s to today ' s crackdown on what leaky investigators describe as an insider information " trading network, " the government has injected fertility drugs into a sub-industry of specialists devoted to winkling out whatever corporate information is not yet in the share price.
Nice Guys, Naughty Information? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2010
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It'll be a hell of a job winkling them out of there.
Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama 2009
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Part of the fun is winkling out the meanings of the rather more obscure names given to the drinks in the book.
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This is nothing to do with winkling out collaborators.
Archive 2007-05-01 Richard 2007
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Finding them can be tricky, but here's a useful resource for winkling out a few of them:
Archive 2007-06-01 glyn moody 2007
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I found the recipe in an Internet drinks database, but have had no luck winkling out its pedigree.
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Esther Dyson, independent investor, still winkling out interesting futures.
The Essentials of Web 2.0 Your Event Doesn't Cover - Anil Dash 2007
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Finding them can be tricky, but here's a useful resource for winkling out a few of them:
Open Courseware Potpourri glyn moody 2007
hernesheir commented on the word winkling
Present participle of the verb winkle. See comment under widger.
January 20, 2010