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nose out

verb

to discover by smelling
to discover by cunning or persistence
the reporter managed to nose out a few facts
informal.
to beat by a narrow margin
he was nosed out of first place by the champion

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Mr Miller calls this a technology that is “only starting to poke its nose out behind the door” within different segments of the publishing industry.

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“I will raise my children the way I want. They’re our children and it’s our choice. He needs to stick his nose out of our business.”

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“I think he should keep his nose out of Michigan politics.”

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“I had to punch a moose in the nose out there,” he told a camera crew, but didn’t offer other details.

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Boy, that Vladimir Putin just can’t keep his nose out of American presidential elections.

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