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Recent Examples of locate Limited picnic tables and shade are located at the center of the farm near the food trucks. Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025 The center of the hurricane is located 125 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica and the storm is moving at just 3 mph. Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025 Zak said the handgun believed to be used by Torres was located inside the apartment. Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025 Authorities were unable to locate Williams, who remains on the run as of 2025. Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for locate
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Verb
  • Police found a firearm in the vehicle, the release says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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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  • Authorities then discovered De Silva suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Bishop discovered that former Rangers defender Connor Goldson, now playing in Cyprus, had a similar problem earlier in his career.
    Tom Burrows, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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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“Locate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locate. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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