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as in to find
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
archaeologists have begun to search the southern end of the valley, where they believe the underground tombs are located
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as in to explore
to go into or range over for purposes of discovery
the Spanish conquistadors searched vast areas of the Southwest in their quest for the fabled cities of gold
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as in to pursue
to go in search of
every year major league scouts crisscross the country to search for young players with promising talent
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Recent Examples of search
Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
The tool will even allow searches based on the emotions AI has detected in the videos.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
At the end of a long day of searching for supernaturals, tuck in next to the crackling fire at The Bowery Hotel before a deep sleep.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Kordia, who felt lightheaded, sat on a sidewalk and was swept up in the arrests; she was handcuffed and shuttled by bus to police headquarters, where she was forced to remove her hijab for a search.
—Aida Alami, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
The tool will even allow searches based on the emotions AI has detected in the videos.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
Frame the experience of caregiving as sacred and as a way to search for personal meaning from a larger perspective.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
At the end of a long day of searching for supernaturals, tuck in next to the crackling fire at The Bowery Hotel before a deep sleep.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search
Noun
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By the late nineteen-eighties, Soviet women were accustomed to coming home after a draining work day to run unmechanized households and hunt for vanishingly rare food and clothing for their children, who were primarily their responsibility.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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Gibson Films is even producing a new documentary, Lost to the Future, which follows the global hunt for McFly’s iconic red ES-345 guitar.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
19 Oct. 2025
Noun
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In the Disney+ series of the same name, rebellious princess Kit (Bottoms’ Ruby Cruz) sets off on a dangerous quest to rescue her twin brother from dastardly forces of evil.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
15 Oct. 2025
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In the film, young Prue must leave her home in Portland to venture into Wildwood on a quest to save her brother, who’s been stolen by a murder of crows.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Search.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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