Idiom
detective work
Meaning
investigative research
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Finding the lost keys required some detective work.”
“After the computer crashed, I had to do some detective work to find which file caused the error.”
“The historian spent years of careful detective work in the archives to uncover the truth behind the forgotten royal scandal.”
Examples
simple
“Finding the lost keys required some detective work.”
contextual
“After the computer crashed, I had to do some detective work to find which file caused the error.”
complex
“The historian spent years of careful detective work in the archives to uncover the truth behind the forgotten royal scandal.”
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