as in to search
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
she hunted through old birth and marriage records to trace the family tree
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Multiple aircraft, cutters and small boats searched 1,047 square miles over 24 hours, finding debris near the location where the EPIRB was activated, along with one body and an unoccupied life raft that had been deployed.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
4 Feb. 2026 -
Where else to search for old retirement accounts Workers who can't currently benefit from the Labor Department database have other avenues to locate old retirement accounts.—
Sarah Agostino,
CNBC,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Hunt (through).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hunt%20%28through%29. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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