as in found
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 located
Before noon, city leaders gathered to unveil a sign next to the new installation, located across from the original site near Lummus Park.
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Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Hopkins lived in a tower within the Frederick Douglass Houses located about three blocks from where he was killed, police said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
Spectators chuckled as Schauffele and an official made their way to the bag and located the ball within it.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
The model numbers are located on the product rating label on the bottom of the unit.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 10 Apr. 2026
The Bad Boy Records founder, 56, is serving his sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, a federal facility located on a military base about 40 miles outside Philadelphia.
—Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
The church is located at 13925 El Camino Real, San Diego, 92130.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Donaldsonville was located in the center of the state’s thriving sugar industry, which was rife with planters growing wealthy on the labor of the enslaved.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The new galleries will be located next to the Brooklyn Museum’s pre-existing Beaux-Arts Court, and the inaugural installation is planned to flow into the museum’s Egyptian art galleries.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2026
Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
Hopkins lived in a tower within the Frederick Douglass Houses located about three blocks from where he was killed, police said.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
Spectators chuckled as Schauffele and an official made their way to the bag and located the ball within it.
—Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
The model numbers are located on the product rating label on the bottom of the unit.
—Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 10 Apr. 2026
The Bad Boy Records founder, 56, is serving his sentence at FCI Fort Dix in New Jersey, a federal facility located on a military base about 40 miles outside Philadelphia.
—Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
The church is located at 13925 El Camino Real, San Diego, 92130.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
Donaldsonville was located in the center of the state’s thriving sugar industry, which was rife with planters growing wealthy on the labor of the enslaved.
—Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
The new galleries will be located next to the Brooklyn Museum’s pre-existing Beaux-Arts Court, and the inaugural installation is planned to flow into the museum’s Egyptian art galleries.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for located
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OpenAI was on the verge of closing a large investment from Thrive, a venture-capital firm founded by Josh Kushner, Jared Kushner’s brother, whom Altman had known for years.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
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Investigators reportedly discovered a handgun, the victim's cellphone and money in the area where the shooting happened.—
Christa Swanson,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Altman agreed to that demand, but in June, as the deal was closing, Amodei discovered that a provision granting Microsoft the power to block OpenAI from any mergers had been added.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Investigators learned Horner had delivered a package to the child’s home about the same time, and thought the FedEx driver might have seen something.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Apr. 2026
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Caroline first learned about the Hole in her twenties by reading mommy blogs, a form of procrastination less about satisfying any conscious curiosity about motherhood and more about finding comfort in the easy intimacy with which these women wrote about their own lives.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Located.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/located. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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