searched (for)

past tense of search (for)

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Verb
  • On Saturday, local Janie Brown sought comfort at a prayer vigil at a chapel in McEwen, Tennessee.
    Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The confrontations, while risking a broader conflict, also pose a geopolitical opportunity for India, which has cautiously sought to improve relations with the Taliban, perhaps filling the diplomatic hole left by its regional rival, Pakistan, analysts said.
    J.D. Capelouto, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Wisconsin farmer murdered two women, and dug up graves, stealing corpses and using body parts as decoration in his homemade house of horrors.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some old stories, like bodies in Wisconsin graves, really don’t need to be dug up.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The species is one of the world’s largest sea turtles, and humans have long hunted it to make turtle soup and to eat its eggs as a delicacy; it has been listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature since the 1980s.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Some of those animals can be legally hunted in other countries.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Agents issued removal orders to 42 stores found out of compliance.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Nevertheless Khalid’s reveling in the freedom he’s found out of the closet.
    Jeff Nelson, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Hurry Up Tomorrow was also accompanied by a feature film of the same name.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The actress accompanied her girls to Paris Fashion Week the week after the news of her split.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Over the loudspeaker, the captain told the passengers that the Alpine Fault ran down the South Island, right beneath the Milford Sound.
    Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Kaden Feagin extended Illinois’ lead to 24-10 later in the third quarter when the 6-foot-3, 255-pound running back grabbed a short pass and ran down the Illini sideline to complete a 64-yard touchdown.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Linda’s daughter is never identified by name, and she is often heard but seldom seen.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Screams and yells can be heard in the background while big groups of people begin to file out of the park quickly.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • International researchers have just discovered a new ice form called ice XXI, which compresses water to extreme pressures while keeping it at room temperature.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This statistical measure of heritability is notoriously difficult to interpret and limited in its import; twin studies, developed decades before the DNA molecule was discovered, also offered little insight into the biology of any particular trait.
    Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
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“Searched (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/searched%20%28for%29. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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