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as in to find out
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for search (for)
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Newsweek sought email comment from the Department of Education and the Department of Government Efficiency.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025 -
The prosecution's initial search warrant sought this information in November.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Later, Ju-yeon finds out that Park Jae-yeong was not a fellow victim of the attack, but was actually in on the whole thing.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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The problem will be finding out which is able to do a deal with De Laurentiis.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Carlton, 32, was remembered in an online death notice as a devoted husband, a father of two girls, active in his Baptist church, and a person who enjoyed trail riding on horseback and bird hunting with his two dogs.—
Susan Miller,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2025
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The artifacts, researchers say, could help shed light on the complex ways in which ancient humans hunted for their prey and fixed their broken belongings.—
Livia Albeck-Ripka,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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The fact sheet accompanying the order is wide-ranging: a policy aimed at correcting global imbalances, restoring manufacturing, reshoring supply chains, confronting non-market economies, and ensuring the defense industrial base is no longer dependent on foreign adversaries.—
Dewardric L. McNeal,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2025
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Fascination has accompanied each of Altuve’s first six starts in left field.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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The trend over the past two years of the relative strength of shipments compared to the weakness of new orders, unfilled orders, and inventories appears to indicate that companies have been burning off their backlogs and running down work-in-progress inventories.—
Jason Schenker,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Listen to this article About a dozen other hikers were nearby Sunday morning when a young man running down the popular Cowles Mountain trail in San Carlos stopped and fired a gun at a group of young men holding rocks who were chasing him and his female companion, according to a witness.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Each evening, the crystal-clear water erupted in a kaleidoscope of bioluminescence, while Reiki students could dig up amethyst and tourmaline from crystal seams that crisscrossed the island.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
17 Mar. 2025
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Protesters dug up greens and planted Palestinian flags in the lawn of his Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg, Ireland last week.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Communicate openly, make ethical decisions, stay true to your values, be transparent and be open to hearing the voices of your team.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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But last week, a federal judge ruled the case will be heard in New Jersey, where Khalil was when his lawyer filed her case.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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The public health ramifications of farmworkers shrinking from view are potentially massive: Infectious disease scientists say that preventing people from getting bird flu and detecting cases are critical to warding off a bird flu pandemic.—
Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2025
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For various examples and further detailed indications about the nature and use of prompting to detect and mitigate the flow of misinformation and disinformation, see my coverage at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Search (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/search%20%28for%29. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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