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When someone searches for something, they don't know where it is and they look in many places to try to discover where it is. I searched the whole room but I don't know where the book is.

search

An attempt to find something. The search for the stolen jewelry was unsuccessful. The act of searching, as in computers etc.. Search engines have made using the internet easier.

search

the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of The police are searching for clues They are searching for the missing man in the entire county (= look) search or seek We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest Look elsewhere for the perfect gift! an investigation seeking answers a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing the outcome justified the search (= research, explore) inquire into 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 subject to a search The police searched the suspect We searched the whole house for the missing keys boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas right of search the examination of alternative hypotheses his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful (= lookup) 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

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Simple sentences

Search as we would, we could not find it.
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What search engine do you use?
Let us search for what connects us, not divide.
I participated in the search.
More than 90 percent of visits to a web page are from search engines.
Many men went west in search of gold.
Search your pockets again to make sure of it.
We went in search of an apartment.
I went into the town in search of a good restaurant.
The villagers went in search of the missing child.
The birds flew south in search of warmth.
He came to Tokyo in search of employment.
He went traveling in search of adventure.
They went in search of treasure.
She went in search of her lost child.
Heck, with oboe players there are those who, rather than search for a reed that suits them, find it faster to make their own.
We all went in search of gold.
After waiting all day, the workers were still looking for a break in the weather so they could resume the search.
We went into the woods in search of insects.
We spread out and began to search through the woods.
I managed to acquire the book after a long search.
He immigrated to Brazil in search of a better life.

Movie subtitles

It was here in the Castle of St George in the hills above Lisbon that the newly crowned Portuguese King Manuel appointed da Gama to command a fleet of ships, to make discoveries and go in search of spices.
And, finally, we'll show you how new technologies are being used to search for, and possibly communicate with, advanced alien civilisations.
And so, it's a reasonable place to start the search.
And scientists are keeping that in perspective when they search for life in the cosmos.
The idea that life can emerge from a different kind of liquid is adding a whole new dimension to our search.
That's the Holy Grail of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
At the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, seth shostack is doing just that.
Because I'm going to search for the truth of my death there.
How about a search warrant?
Oh, God, I think it's one of my fans from Star Search.
Where are we at with the search for Declan's body?
OC Search have a team, and enquiries are underway.
Which ones did you search?
In search of Josephine, Juve and Fandor continued their inquiry in nightclubs on Montmartre.
We can only spend 20 minutes on the search.
Take the search back to where you first spotted 008.
They donned rough hides and claimed to be journeyman tanners, roaming the country in search of work.
I'm sorry, I'll have to search you, X-27.
You will search the woods.
Search every ravine, every crevasse, but the fiend must be found!
You search there.
I was only thinking if he were to search my rooms while I am here.
Search every one of them.
Any man with half an eye could see that those women are on this train in search of victims.
I doubt. milady. if we'll have to search far for the thief.
Why don't we all submit to a search.
Stoland, you take charge of the search in the hills.
The police appeal to the public to keep calm and to admit uniformed search parties to all property.
The screws search our lockers, they go through our backpacks.
Search for him!
I think it's one of my fans from Star Search.
I'll also submit a search request for Kenichi.
Search the entire area!
I will have to search for a new job.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR YOU ALL TO SUBMIT TO A SEARCH.
SEARCH EVERY INCH OF THE GROUNDS.
I'LL SEARCH EVERYONE IN THIS PLACE DOWN TO THEIR HIDE!
OH, SEARCH ME NOW, SIR, AND LET ME GO.
ALL RIGHT, SEARCH HIM.
You search for happiness, and all the time it's right behind the bar.
Eric, take Fedele and search the grounds.

News and current affairs

After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
It will subordinate all who really do work - traders, warriors, journalists, and others - to party ideologues whose sole job is to search for enemies.
Financial systems are bloated by implicit taxpayer guarantees, which allow banks, particularly large ones, to borrow money at interest rates that do not fully reflect the risks they take in search of outsized profits.
More than any other collective activity, it channels the search for identity and identification that dominates our age.
This deep search for identification should not be confused with a simple surge of nationalism.
Whatever short-term temptations it faces - to manipulate its search results, use private information, or throw its weight around - Google, it is clear, could lose a lot by succumbing to them in a world where its every move is watched.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to visit Pyongyang in July in search of support for his objections to America's proposed anti-missile shield.
But they also point to the upside: the oil industry, in its never-ending search for more reserves, need not beg Congress for the right to despoil Alaska.
It blocks Chinese Internet surfers from visiting a list of banned Web sites and late last summer it blocked access to the Google and AltaVista search engines.
Journalists, intellectuals, and entrepreneurs reportedly chafe at government efforts to block access to overseas search engines; one day they might demand freedom of speech more generally.
As a result, Syria's various political power centers have embarked on a desperate search for a vision to promote change yet allow the existing order to survive.
But it can help the search for a solution.
James Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, has announced his intention to leave, and the search is on for a new head of the world's most important multilateral organization promoting development.
Why should the search for Wolfensohn's successor be limited to an American (and especially an American loyal to a particular political party)?
African countries search endlessly, and mostly fruitlessly, for the small amounts of funding needed for their purchases of fertilizer and improved seeds.
The most recent phase of the advanced economies' frenzied search for growth took different forms.
Faced with the loss of the nation's central idea and desperately in search of a new one, millions of Argentines have become interested in their history.
Argentina's ongoing search is an untold, fascinating story of how we Argentines imagine and define who we want to be in the next decades.
But this demand for political moderation impedes the search for the radical and painful solutions that Britain needs.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions require states to search for those who have committed war crimes and either prosecute them in their own courts or turn them over to another state that is prepared to try them.
The decision by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to abolish the post of Commissioner for Enlargement has been seen as highly symbolic, leaving many in search of an alternative model.
Created after WWII to finance temporary imbalances of the members of a fixed-exchange rate system, the IMF has been in search of a cause since the demise of the dollar exchange-rate system in 1971.
On the Hong Kong-based search engine, Chinese internauts could read about Taiwan, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, or the Dalai Lama.
But that search for long historical continuity is facile, for it misses one of the key determinants of debt sustainability: the identity of the state's creditor.
Given this, officials, investors, and business leaders in search of revolutionary ideas, cutting-edge solutions, and untapped talent should not allow turbulence in some societies, or tranquility in others, to influence their decisions excessively.
For example, while US monetary-policy intervention (yes, monetary policy is also intervention) has done little to boost domestic demand, it has spurred domestic capital to search for yield around the world.
Unexpectedly, the search for life elsewhere in the universe may provide a critical new perspective.
There is an excellent chance that we will find it and its brethren within a decade, and search for signs of an alien biosphere in these worlds' atmospheric compositions or climates.

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