SEARCHED (FOR) Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

searched (for)

verb

past tense of search (for)

as in sought

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as in dug up

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Verb

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham sought in an opening statement last week to keep jurors' focus on the defendant, not her doctors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Militaries often run command and control operations away from the frontlines; enemies have sought to disrupt those communications through jamming and, in the past few decades, cyberattacks.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of sought

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When the Trail Blazers were hiring him, a security check dug up his record.

— Laurel Donnellan, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
These rivers have not dried up but rather have been buried in concrete, and though Athens is no stranger to its present being dug up and overturned to showcase the past, this burial was a reversal.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

Definition of dug up

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In that massacre, Black South Carolinians were systematically hunted throughout their community over an alleged attack on a white elderly woman, which was later proved false.

— Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026

Definition of hunted

Verb

Grayson was accompanied by another deputy who had his body camera switched on throughout the encounter.

— Jerry Nowicki, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Kruse was in the arena and accompanied the girls, who were there to watch Cunningham and the Indiana Fever take on the Storm.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of accompanied

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France took the lead with a solo try from Ntamack, who ran down the short side from about 22-meters out, dummied, palmed off a defender and crashed over in a tackle in the 52nd, and conversion from skipper Maxime Lucu.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 July 2026
The Kelce brothers once ran down their favorite fast-food burgers, and apparently, Burger King is tops.

— Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026

Definition of ran down

Verb

So far this dry summer there have not discovered any major issues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
As a result, our focus will be on forward guidance, end market commentary, and any new opportunities the team may have discovered since separation to enhance efficiencies.

— Zev Fima,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026

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