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searched

verb

past tense of search

as in found

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 explored

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 searched As Pivetta searched for his accuracy in the first inning, neither the former reliever Stammen nor pitching coach Ruben Niebla had success in getting the righty on track. —

Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026 State police later searched the area near the steel bridge and found among the piles of wood chips an envelope bearing the victim’s name, pieces of bone and tissue, a human fingernail and crowns to the victim’s teeth, prosecutors said. —

Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026 Police said the driver jumped back into his vehicle while it was being searched in Prince George’s County. —

Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2026 Mutch faced new charges after authorities searched his home in May 2025. —

Tim Fang, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026 Air Force personnel had searched the sprawling base without discovering the device initially. —

David Fischer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026 Sumner had 71 pounds of marijuana and two pounds of psychedelic mushrooms when officers searched his home, and Woodson had 86 pounds of marijuana and more than seven pounds of mushrooms. —

Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026 Ashley Elizabeth Harden logged on recently from her home in small-town Louisiana and searched for a weight-loss drug. —

Christopher Rowland The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 21 Mar. 2026 Authorities also searched two additional homes in Stanislaus County linked to Carrillo and his associates. —

Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 20 Mar. 2026

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Its founding principles—informed by an environmentally-conscious ethos and values which ‘protect the islands, support local communities, and do business in a…fair and future-focused way,’ says Dixon—mirrored those at Nikoi, and still hold strong today.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
And the three who founded it in 1998 ran two unlicensed boarding schools in Missouri that have since been closed amid abuse allegations.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 31 Mar. 2026