search (for)

verb

Definition of search (for)next
1
as in to seek

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2
as in to find out

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  1. seek
  2. find out
  3. hunt
  4. accompany
  5. run down
  6. dig up
  7. hear
  8. detect
Verb
  • More importantly, the Nuggets are seeking help in the form of someone who is able to create offense with the ball in his hands.
    Sam Amick, The Athletic, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Turkey is seeking to eliminate armed Kurdish militants, Israel has struck the remnants of the Syrian Arab Army’s capabilities and expanded its territorial control, while the United States has ramped up its strikes on ISIS and moved warships to the region.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of seek
Verb
  • To find out more about Whitmore Pest & Wildlife Control’s services, please visit their website.
    Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • So just sniffing that out and really finding out whether that's a plausible line is really what's on his mind at the moment.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of find out
Verb
  • Owners hide treats amid tufts of fabric and dogs have a blast hunting for them with their noses and snouts.
    Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Category Winners Every annoyed and overtired fish needs to de-stress by hunting for a bald eagle.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of hunt
Verb
  • Similar pronouncements accompanied Trump’s initial election in 2016, and Barack Obama’s sweeping victory eight years earlier.
    Bruce J. Schulman / Made by History, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The report and the accompanying video—which features the accusers telling their stories in shadow—are all in Swedish, but according to an online translation, Djerf has been accused of bullying, favoritism, creating a toxic work environment, being fatphobic, and more.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of accompany
Verb
  • Our Harrison Campbell ran down five TSSAA football playoff games across the state that might feature upsets this week.
    Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Below, the executive runs down some of the career highlights from his time at the studio.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of run down
Verb
  • Even digging up supporting technical literature and links to pass on would not guarantee the idea was taken up.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Which is why low-wage laborers around the globe risk their lives burning old extension cords or dousing circuit boards with chemicals to retrieve metals that other low-wage workers risked their lives to dig up in the first place.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of dig up
Verb
  • Now a chef at the Department of Justice and the father of two children with autism, two and three years old, Smith said hearing about the incident hit him hard.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Disney appealed the decision, but the California Supreme Court declined to hear the case, which effectively ended its legal fight.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of hear
Verb
  • This new study also builds upon a discovery from earlier this year that detected carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide ice on trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) for the first time.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Dec. 2024
  • If malaria is the culprit, there may have been ways to rapidly detect it locally, said Amira Albert Roess, a professor of global health and epidemiology at George Mason University.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of detect
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