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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
Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
Liverpool don’t have a replacement for Heitinga lined up, but the search for a new addition to Slot’s staff is already underway.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
Click here to join or search for The Athletic | F1 on your WhatsApp.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Noun
The idea that airlines or booking sites track your searches to hike prices remains one of the most persistent travel myths of the digital age.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2025
Liverpool don’t have a replacement for Heitinga lined up, but the search for a new addition to Slot’s staff is already underway.
—James Pearce, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Verb
But Johnson’s show, which unfolds chronologically, feels like one winding, thorny, searching, implicitly memoiristic half-century-long process of thought—a record of growing up.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 30 May 2025
Click here to join or search for The Athletic | F1 on your WhatsApp.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search
Noun
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Any future decision on a hunt would have to come back before lawmakers.—
John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
6 June 2025
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Workers with a college degree still fare better on the job hunt than those without one, but the lack of movement for those that are currently employed are making backfill positions more and more limited.—
Solcyré Burga,
Time,
6 June 2025
Noun
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Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.—
Noriko Hayashi,
New York Times,
31 May 2025
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Harvard’s dishonest expert on honesty is a poignant symbol of a far larger problem in academia: ideological allegiance replacing the quest for truth.—
Andrew Follett,
National Review,
31 May 2025
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“Search.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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