Today’s “Word of the Day” is glean and it is a verb meaning “to get information/material little by little from different sources, often with difficulty; obtain, collect, gather, garner, draw, extract, find out”.
Example Sentence: But the New York Times, citing laid off employees, earlier today reported that terminated workers were “given few details about severance (dismissal) and were told they would receive more information in a week”, adding, “They said they gleaned that any severance would probably be less than what Twitter’s previous management would have paid.”
This word is present in The Guardian article Twitter layoffs: anger and confusion as multiple teams reportedly decimated – as it happenedt and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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