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Discover LudwigThe phrase "winkle out" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean to discover or retrieve something (or someone) through perseverance and effort. For example: "We were unable to find the missing documents, but after a few days of digging, we were able to winkle them out."
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winkle out
verb
To acquire something or someone with difficulty.
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They know how to winkle out a narrative.
With a few accurate verbal strokes, she could winkle out the defining aspect of a personality.
What McCandless has achieved is to winkle out the precise formula for becoming a successful astrologer.
Check out Istanbul Eats to winkle out good local places to try.
Israel would, after all, find it hard if not impossible to winkle out every last rocket and martyr.
To winkle out meaning from indirect or muted expression flatters and delights our intelligence; it is a cynosure of urbanity.
The avowed aim was to winkle out "terrorists" but the effect was to demolish civilian life there.
It takes a while to winkle out the details of all the awards Smith has received across her career.
At the time the press-box chatter was how, with the field spread, he might winkle out the necessary runs.
And as former chief of staff Lord Richards said on the BBC, it will take more than air strikes to winkle out this wealthy, well-armed group.
All the veto-wielding members of the council agree that some sort of arms-control regime must resume to winkle out Iraq's remaining biological and chemical weapons.
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