nowhere to be found

idiom

: unable to be found : lost
My glasses are nowhere to be found.

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Most of the world's best where nowhere to be found on the leaderboard. Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025 Of course, by this time the $4.2 million cat was already out of the bag and nowhere to be found. Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025 Single-use plastics are largely banned: water is served in glass or aluminum bottles, and plastic straws are, of course, nowhere to be found. Chris Schaklx, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2025 Why is the word nowhere to be found at the encampments and the rallies or in the news reports and the op-eds and the open letters? David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nowhere to be found

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“Nowhere to be found.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nowhere%20to%20be%20found. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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