as in to find
to come upon after searching, study, or effort
we were finally able to locate the missing cat, who had been sleeping in the closet the whole time
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Recent Examples of locate
Of the survivors, Superman works with Raven to find Constantine and help locate Robin, who’s on a quest to free Batman from slavery.
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors have located $500,000 in funds associated with the scam operation allegedly belonging to Manuel Terrones Godoy and Mauricio Novelli, Milei inner circle members who brought Hayden Mark Davis to the Casa Rosada.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Karalis supplies his colleagues with fluorescent orange utility uniforms and stealthily leads them through the back door of the Bank Al Muraqabah, located just below Rahim’s building.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
One of his four restaurants, El Secreto de Rosita, is located on U Street near 16th Street in Northwest Washington.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2025
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Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Sep. 2025
Prosecutors have located $500,000 in funds associated with the scam operation allegedly belonging to Manuel Terrones Godoy and Mauricio Novelli, Milei inner circle members who brought Hayden Mark Davis to the Casa Rosada.
—Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Karalis supplies his colleagues with fluorescent orange utility uniforms and stealthily leads them through the back door of the Bank Al Muraqabah, located just below Rahim’s building.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
One of his four restaurants, El Secreto de Rosita, is located on U Street near 16th Street in Northwest Washington.
—David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for locate
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The typical price of a single-family home in the United States is about $368,000, jumping roughly 13% over the past 5 years and 38% over the last decade, the ABC News data team found.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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And Sheen does find the words to tell more harrowing stories of addiction and excess that defined his Hollywood spiral.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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As The Athletic discovered on a recent stroll along the waterfront from the city centre, there’s certainly plenty of land ripe for development.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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For the uninitiated, the Hall effect, first discovered in 1879 by Edwin Hall, is a phenomenon where an electric current flowing through a conductor or semiconductor in the presence of a magnetic field produces a voltage across the material.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Sep. 2025
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The Tombstone star has joined the cast of the Yellowstone spinoff series The Madison, Entertainment Weekly has learned.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Having learned to think of themselves as an identity group like any other, such Americans have begun to flex their muscles.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Locate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/locate. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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