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as in to find out
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search (for)
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Alcaraz, the two-time defending champion at SW19, is also seeking a second Channel Slam in a row.—
James Hansen,
New York Times,
22 June 2025 -
If trapped by moving water, seek the highest possible point and contact emergency services by calling 911.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
22 June 2025
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Although the remarkable images of active volcanoes drew everyone’s attention, the goal of these flybys was to find out if a magma ocean truly lay beneath the moon’s rocky skin.—
Robin Andrews,
Wired News,
15 June 2025
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The plot centers around a group of internet ghost hunters desperate to find out whatever happened to their friend, Riley (played by Sarah Durn).—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
13 June 2025
Verb
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It’s been a constant search for fixes, working on delivery posture, mixing in a new sinker and hunting for fastball command.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
15 June 2025
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Lindsey McGinnis/The Christian Science Monitor In 2014, the village government passed a regulation banning bird hunting in Jatimulyo, home to at least 99 bird species, including four that are considered vulnerable or endangered.—
Lindsey McGinnis,
Christian Science Monitor,
13 June 2025
Verb
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The drop-in program is for children 3 to 8 years old with an accompanying adult.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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The Panglossian financial projections will be accompanied by tectonic socioeconomic and psychological change.—
Mark A. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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But while in the batter’s box and while running down that line, his fire burned just as hot as if there were twenty scouts in the stands judging his every movement.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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His white shirt is blood stained and blood can be seen running down his face and matted in his hair a crowd assist him to the medical staff.—
Hannah Parry
Barney Henderson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
Verb
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Images show the process of paving over the Rose Garden, first with construction crews digging up the grass, then poles and mud in the garden area.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The difficulty lies not just in the cost -- which will end up totaling about a year of the waste management division's annual budget -- but also in the logistical headache of digging up the city's streets.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 June 2025
Verb
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In auditoriums and convention centers, businesspeople, educators, salespeople, and homemakers gathered to hear speakers such as Norman Vincent Peale, Zig Ziglar, and Art Linkletter, among others, extol the virtues of positive thinking, unbridled optimism, and hard work.—
Robert B. Tucker,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
19 June 2025
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Asian needle ants were first detected in the U.S. almost a century ago, but the species has continued to expand its reach, primarily throughout the Southeast, and this pest could potentially be deadly to humans, according to Dan Suiter, a professor of urban entomology at the University of Georgia.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
10 June 2025
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The aphid was carried from Africa by the harmattan wind across the ocean to the Caribbean; it was detected in Florida’s sugarcane fields in the late nineteen-seventies and, in 2013, on sorghum crops farther north.—
Peter Slevin,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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“Search (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search%20%28for%29. Accessed 26 Jun. 2025.
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