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Six example sentences with detecting, each labelled with its topic.
Weeks of patient detecting linked the forged invoices to a single clerk who had signed every one of them.
Law
Victorian novels made detecting glamorous, sending a brilliant amateur through fog to name the culprit in the final chapter.
Literature
Scotland Yard's early detecting relied on informants and shoe leather, since fingerprint files did not exist until 1901.
History
The film treats detecting as patient paperwork, and its best scene is a sergeant reading phone records for twenty minutes.
Movies
The game leaves the detecting to the player, who must match muddy footprints and train times before naming the thief.
Gaming
Modern detecting leans on phone location data, and a suspect's own map history often does the work a dozen witnesses once did.
Technology
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