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Now the company is casting about in a very different sort of pool.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 June 2025
The cart before the horse There’s a difference between a scientist who hypothesizes that a medical fact may be true and then sets about testing that idea, and a scientist who has already embraced and amplified a medical theory and is now casting about for something to support his conclusion.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
My college cohort graduated into a decimated job market, desperately seeking internships that were likely to be unpaid and casting about for gigs working in bars or cafés.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
The list of things Disney might not want journalists to ask its cast about with this movie is long and of varying levels of importance.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 June 2025
The cart before the horse There’s a difference between a scientist who hypothesizes that a medical fact may be true and then sets about testing that idea, and a scientist who has already embraced and amplified a medical theory and is now casting about for something to support his conclusion.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 7 May 2025
My college cohort graduated into a decimated job market, desperately seeking internships that were likely to be unpaid and casting about for gigs working in bars or cafés.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2025
The list of things Disney might not want journalists to ask its cast about with this movie is long and of varying levels of importance.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cast about
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This option by Loloi, made in collaboration with fellow HGTV star Joanna Gaines, has a gorgeous neutral pattern that will look at home during any season.—
Averi Baudler,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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And a fifth of job seekers on the hunt have been looking for a year.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
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The city has reached 85% of its total water treatment capacity now, Hall said.—
Penny Weaver,
Arkansas Online,
30 Oct. 2025
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But any agreement reached will be just one touchstone in a thorny and volatile great power rivalry between the world’s superpower democracy and an authoritarian China, whose growing military assertiveness under Xi in the East and South China Seas is rattling US allies in the region.—
Betsy Klein,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Some trappers focus on humane, live-capture and relocation for nuisance animals, while others are licensed hunters who can legally trap and kill animals during hunting seasons.—
Chris McKeown,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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In 2015, a reporter spent a night at the Algonquin with ghost-hunting tools and claimed that eight spirits — possibly including Dorothy Parker — answered her call.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Cast about.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cast%20about. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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