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Synonyms for search

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noun · the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

noun · an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

“they wrote a program to do a table lookup”

verb · try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

“The police are searching for clues”

verb · search or seek

“We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”

verb · inquire into

“the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”