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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
Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Packer suspected that these queries were connected to reporting from The Information in August that cited sources claiming OpenAI was scraping Google search results to power ChatGPT responses.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Nov. 2025
Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
His car was later found abandoned, and authorities began searching the area.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Noun
Jack Linehan, a partner at SchoolExecConnect who's helping with the search process, said the job has been posted on SchoolExecConnect's website, the Wisconsin School Leadership Center website and on WECAN, an online job portal listing open positions in Wisconsin school districts.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 7 Nov. 2025
Packer suspected that these queries were connected to reporting from The Information in August that cited sources claiming OpenAI was scraping Google search results to power ChatGPT responses.
—ArsTechnica, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
Officers searched the home, but Melodee was nowhere to be found.
—Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
His car was later found abandoned, and authorities began searching the area.
—Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search
Noun
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Badlands is set in the future on a remote alien planet, where Dek, a young Predator (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan and desperate to prove himself with his first official hunt, finds an unlikely ally in a robot named Thia (Elle Fanning).—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Nov. 2025
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Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
7 Nov. 2025
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This quest for self-reliance is not just about economics but explicitly tied to national security.—
Shaoyu Yuan,
The Conversation,
5 Nov. 2025
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As her mother’s failing health threatens the life of her unborn child, Ofelia undertakes a quest to complete the Faun’s tasks.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Search.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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