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An investigation seeking answers
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noun
An investigation seeking answers
“A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing”
noun
Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas
“Right of search”
noun
The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
noun
The examination of alternative hypotheses
“His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful”
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
Inquire into
“The students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project”
verb
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
“The police are searching for clues”
verb
Subject to a search
“The police searched the suspect”
verb
Search or seek
“We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest”
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A thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing
The outcome justified the search
Right of search
His search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful
They wrote a program to do a table lookup
The students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project
He searched for information on his relatives on the web
Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness
The police are searching for clues
They are searching for the missing man in the entire county
The police searched the suspect
We searched the whole house for the missing keys
We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest
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