search (for)

verb

Definition of search (for)next
1
as in to seek

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2
as in to find out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search (for)
  1. seek
  2. find out
  3. hunt
  4. run down
  5. accompany
  6. dig up
  7. hear
  8. detect
Verb
  • SpaceX is seeking to raise an extra $40 billion in debt to help fund the campaign, but even fans on Wall Street question how SpaceX will raise the massive sums required.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • This legal challenge is not seeking to remove the measure from the ballot.
    — Amy DeLaura, The Washington Examiner, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of seek
Verb
  • When people can’t easily find out how much water and power a site will use, or who actually benefits, politicians fill the gap with rhetoric.
    — Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Nivola and Britton are tight-lipped, preferring to let viewers find out for themselves.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of find out
Verb
  • To do this, the team of researchers used fossils and knowledge of mosasaurs' most recent living relatives – snakes and lizards like the komodo dragon – to recreate the hunting behavior of mosasaurs.
    — October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Iceland's notoriously changeable weather and frequent cloud cover can make aurora hunting challenging.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of hunt
Verb
  • Blair had tears running down her face, while her team worked to explain what happened.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
  • There’s a marshy creek that runs down the west side of the property, and that creekbottom transitions to a 100-yard-wide stretch of hardwoods that border a hayfield.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of run down
Verb
  • Witkoff and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy embrace, accompanied by Finnish President Alexander Stubb, left, and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, during their meeting in Oslo on Tuesday.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The deal accompanied an investment that made the Defense Department the company’s largest shareholder.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of accompany
Verb
  • Chicago has opened voting to name the giant rock that was dug up at O'Hare International Airport during construction.
    — Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Their quest becomes more difficult every year, however, as the remains of pre-Columbian trees slough back into the earth or are dug up to make way for agriculture and construction.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of dig up
Verb
  • The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case about the role race plays in middle school admissions, three years after a majority on the high court struck down affirmative action in college.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Trying to exonerate herself, Erin lays out this confusing defense about how her makeup guy heard about Sai’s divorce at a beauty event.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of hear
Verb
  • The researchers also detected these predictive responses in two sensory-processing regions of the thalamus, suggesting that anticipation involves multiple structures beneath the cerebral cortex.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Security software may help detect harmful scripts or their effects, although no antivirus product can guarantee protection against every attack.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of detect
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