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Recent Examples of cast aboutNow the company is casting about in a very different sort of pool.—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 See All Example Sentences for cast about
These included the Montaukett, Shinnecock, and Matinecock people, who had lived in semi-permanent villages and hunted, fished, and farmed on the island for centuries.
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Police, along with a local hunting association and city officials, initiated a search for the man, but were forced to suspend it after only half an hour due to inclement weather.
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