search party
noun
: an organized group of people who are looking for someone or something that is missing
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This remains a death investigation, private investigator Carl DeFazio, who was part of the search party that looked for Tarrence, tells PEOPLE.
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Kc Baker, People.com, 7 July 2025
No Ju-han—Netflix If the VIPs were Season 1’s sour note, then in Season 2, slow-moving side plots set among the guards and the search party looking for Squid Game Island provided less jarring but more extensive distractions from the main event.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
In 1847, after two years had passed without word from the expedition, Jane and seasoned Arctic explorers like the Rosses urged the Admiralty to send out a search party.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
Conley said a search party of 70 people combed a green belt nestled in the middle of housing developments off the highway, a short distance from the Executive Inn & Suites, where Martinez was last seen in August.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
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Kc Baker, People.com, 7 July 2025
No Ju-han—Netflix If the VIPs were Season 1’s sour note, then in Season 2, slow-moving side plots set among the guards and the search party looking for Squid Game Island provided less jarring but more extensive distractions from the main event.
—Judy Berman, Time, 27 June 2025
In 1847, after two years had passed without word from the expedition, Jane and seasoned Arctic explorers like the Rosses urged the Admiralty to send out a search party.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 May 2025
Conley said a search party of 70 people combed a green belt nestled in the middle of housing developments off the highway, a short distance from the Executive Inn & Suites, where Martinez was last seen in August.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2025
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“Search party.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/search%20party. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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