单词 | fact-gathering |
释义 | > as lemmasfact-gathering fact-gathering adj. and n. ΚΠ 1841 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. June 401 This professor who has taken upon himself the office of public rebuker of the cautious, fact-gathering, nature-studying phrenologist. 1847 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. 9 353 He has an uncommon desire to know what is going on around him..; is great at fact gathering; [etc.]. 1905 A. Johnstone Recoll. R. L. Stevenson in Pacific vii. 140 To a man like Stevenson, whose sympathies..preceded his political fact-gathering, the royalist cause..seemed to be recipient of aggressions..from the annexationists. 1958 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship 118/1 His fact-gathering and his several publications about libraries. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 16 Sept. 80/2 The peons who perform the fact-gathering, news-writing or coffee-fetching duties that keep CNN's New York headquarters humming. < as lemmas |
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