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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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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
Verb
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Some residents have found debris as far as two miles from the facility, according to the Hickman County Sheriff’s office.—
Isabel Rosales,
CNN Money,
16 Oct. 2025
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Don’t expect to find an M5 in an iPhone, though.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The researchers noted that torsional loading is not as strongly associated with injury risk as vertical loading, but future work may explore whether improved stroller design or posture cues could mitigate those twisting forces.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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While some diseases, like seasonal allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases, are known to cause eosinophilia, or an abnormally high number of these cells, the role of eosinophilia in chronic pain hasn’t been well explored.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 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
Verb
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Many iPhone users have long wanted an easier way to edit, annotate and scan documents without relying on third-party tools.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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Carefully scan the road ahead while driving.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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Photographer Gabriel Antal shared heartstopping footage to Instagram, under the handle hybaj_na_island, of the moment the group stopped to take pictures on the rocks at Reynisfjara, a famous black sand beach located in southern Iceland, near the town of Vík í Mýrdal.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Airbnb will be located in the heart of the city, and is designed to look like a ‘70s television show.—
Mae Hamilton,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Carter’s research for a billionaire aesthetic included combing through design magazines and coffee-table books, noting blanched color palettes and editorial spreads that both reflect and shape real-world luxury.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
19 Oct. 2025
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Then TikTok got ahold of it (yes, some teams even have staffers combing through social media).—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Following the shootout at Bushkill, the FBI launched a probe into the task force to investigate whether there was someone on the inside feeding information to the Dark Hearts.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
13 Oct. 2025
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There were no injuries and the case is being investigated, Mauk said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Search.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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