SEARCH (FOR) Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

search (for)

verb

Definition of search (for)

as in to seek

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as in to find out

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Verb

Like that of his predecessors, João Havelange and Sepp Blatter, Infantino is seeking to rally his core supporters in his traditional power base of Africa.

— Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Over the years, India’s blockbusters have sought to outdo each other in budget, especially those in Bollywood and the Telugu film industry.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of seek

Verb

Today, unless Omaha residents pay for private testing, there aren’t many avenues to find out how much lead is in their soil if their property had been tested by the city and EPA in the past.

— Cassandra Garibay, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2026
When the Jays found out on their team plane Sunday night Gausman was traded to the Chicago Cubs, Varsho said, Springer, Gausman and the outfielder cried together.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of find out

Verb

Here's a look at what the orbiter captured, and what could be next as NASA also hunts for the crash site.

— Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Trillions of neutrinos — mostly those produced in the sun — pass through our bodies every second, yet after years of hunting them with detectors such as SNO+, researchers have captured only a few hundred thousand of their precious flashes.

— James Dinneen, Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of hunt

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For four years now, Metro light rail trains have been running down the center of Crenshaw Boulevard, and for just as long, residents say a major promise has been broken.

— Lauren Pozen, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Not Bone, But Nerve That something is the ulnar nerve, one of the three major nerves running down the arm.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of run down

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The 130 units sit adjacent to the MARTA Lindbergh Station and will be accompanied with 10,000 square feet of affordable commercial space.

— Elijah Megginson, AJC.com, 6 Aug. 2026
There’s a large analog central tachometer accompanied by physical toggle switches and an analog aviation style compass.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of accompany

Verb

At night, Ghaida hears Israeli drones overhead, despite the ceasefire.

— Ava Bambuck, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Sarah Miller, a software engineer from the liberal stronghold of Madison, has heard all of the chatter about a civil war in the Democratic Party between progressives and moderates.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of hear

Verb

OpenAI said models under evaluation helped an agent compromise Hugging Face’s production infrastructure; the Associated Press later reported that Anthropic also detected that its models hacked three organizations during their own cyber testing.

— Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
Some are even more advanced, automatically detecting your absence and switching to a more energy-friendly mode.

— Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 31 July 2026

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