1
as in to realize
to come to an awareness of
I was startled to discover that my keys were missing
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2
as in to find
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
we hope to discover the real reason for his odd behavior
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3
as in to reveal
to make known (as information previously kept secret)
discovered to his friend how people whom he had trusted had betrayed him
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Recent Examples of discover
This crafty solution is exactly what Atlanta DIYer Erin Marshall discovered.
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Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
That research, for example, recently discovered a survivor of the 1912 Titanic disaster was – by sheer chance – buried within feet of a man who worked on the ship that rescued her.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
With over 700 different species of plants, there’s always something new to discover.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
Kruppa said her middle child was the first to discover their connection to Peete.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Kathy Barnes, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Oct. 2025
That research, for example, recently discovered a survivor of the 1912 Titanic disaster was – by sheer chance – buried within feet of a man who worked on the ship that rescued her.
—Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
With over 700 different species of plants, there’s always something new to discover.
—Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
Kruppa said her middle child was the first to discover their connection to Peete.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discover
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Portable Charger There’s nothing worse than getting halfway through a long sightseeing day and realizing that your phone is on its last leg.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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When people realized that the blue photons were firing at them not only from their devices but from every light bulb, there was a rush to avoid bright white LEDs altogether.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Police found a firearm in the vehicle, the release says.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Oct. 2025
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The child was found by her mother three hours later, with internal vehicle temperatures having reached over 108 degrees.—
Jose R. Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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However, with the rise of complex multi-physics scenarios in new energy, smart vehicles, and semiconductors in recent years, legacy CAE architectures have begun to reveal their limitations.—
Ni Tao,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Oct. 2025
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According to the Associated Press, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods revealed that deputies responded to at least six incidents between the two women from January 2021 through June 2023.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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My history and the lessons learned My record of immediately reversing transfers is historically bad, with this season no exception!—
Holly Shand,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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One cornerstone is Bayesian optimization, an active-learning strategy that greedily picks the next best experiment.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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In addition to locating victims’ remains, the on-site work involved removing and disposing of explosives that didn’t detonate in the blast.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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Across town, Mark Fontana leaned over a slab of granite in a monument manufacturing shop located right next to the Italian cemetery, full of headstones in various stages, giant stone cutting machines, diamond-grinders and a room for sandblasting headstones.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Instead of disclosing her condition to her employer and circles of friends, Sickler pulled back from modeling with little explanation, thinking that the absence of her hair would certainly result in the loss of her contract.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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When Target disclosed early holiday discounts for Target Circle Week to rival Amazon Prime Days earlier this month, the discounter said Converse shoes were discounted 20 percent, and that special deal of the day offers were 40 percent off shoe brands such as Crocs and Hey Dude.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The suppression of Black voters well into the twentieth century was only ended (for the most part) with the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), after a long and dangerous fight that saw multiple incidents of deadly violence against those advocating for equal access to the ballot.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Oct. 2025
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But the biggest surprise was seeing how ineffective Liverpool’s forwards were.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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An early example was uncovered by the young Benjaman Graham, who went on co-author a classic book on investing, and was the early mentor to Warren Buffett.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025
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The mathematical problems had already been solved by humans—and GPT-5 had simply uncovered the existing solutions to those problems.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Discover.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discover. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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