FINDS OUT Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

finds out

verb

present tense third-person singular of find out

as in realizes

to come to an awareness of that was around the time that I found out I was adopted

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as in finds

to come upon after searching, study, or effort found out about the new restaurant by reading reviews online

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Recent Examples of finds out Some family members even left the courtroom as Marcelle is heard asking about her children and finds out her son was killed. — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 24 June 2026 And also God help him if anyone on the island finds out that Evan is the last [descendant]. — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 June 2026 At the lot where the Bombsight meet happens, Geisha finds out the squad is looking for V-One. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 6 May 2026 Sean is tested when his longtime friend and employee Jorge (Trey Santiago-Hudson) finds out about all of Sean’s changes and feels betrayed — Sean’s new sous chef gig means the end of the food truck, which Jorge was relying on. — Ashley Boucher, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Apr. 2026 In Season 1 Morgan discovered Roman may have inadvertently become involved in Los Angeles' criminal underworld, and Karadec finds out Roman was an FBI informant who's likely now in Nevada. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025 Paul finds out and blows his top. — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025 After Jeremiah gets disgustingly drunk at his bachelor party, Conrad finds out that Jeremiah cheated on Belly in Cabo. — Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025 Butterfly follows David, a former special operative, who finds out that his estranged daughter, Rebecca, is working for the same dark spy agency, Caddis, that he was forced to flee. — Caroline Blair, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for finds out

Verb

Hopefully, the family realizes that not only the community, but the Jeep community is there for them.

— Erin Jones, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Johnson realizes there’s a need to cut loose like that since it’s been done before.

— Randy Myers, Mercury News, 30 July 2026

Definition of realizes

Verb

The show finds ways to expose the worst in its characters, their pettiest, most vengeful, greediest parts.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
Also screening is Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, another feature from Cannes, following a successful company director called Gleb, who finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of finds

Verb

Along the way Danny discovers that family is not always the one you are born into, but the one that believes in you when no one else will.

— Alex Ritman, Variety, 31 July 2026
Alice craves mentorship but can’t help noting how often Nora drinks on the job; Nora, who discovers Alice having a panic attack in the bathroom, wonders whether the newbie stands a chance of making it in the Bureau.

— Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026

Definition of discovers

Verb

Like Diebolt, Rosenman sees a dynamic more complicated than where a Democrat falls on the ideological spectrum.

— Sam Gringlas, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
On the contrary, Oxford Economics sees job growth staying slightly positive on the back of industries like healthcare that are more immune to the business cycle.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of sees

Verb

Tamas locates its tragedy not only in violence and displacement but also in the speed with which neighbors become enemies while those who engineer communal hatred remain insulated from the suffering that follows.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
The female locates and stings a large insect such as a cicada or katydid and then brings it back to the burrow.

— Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026

Definition of locates

Verb

But the template—already structured for your business, with the right fields and formulas—gets you to an answer in minutes, not hours.

— Yu Fang, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Washington has won three straight and wants to shore up its playoff position as the season gets toward crunch time.

— Torrey Hart, New York Times, 31 July 2026