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The Department of Homeland Security has been running an online detainee locator since 2010 where anyone can look up a person being held in immigration detention.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2026

You can look up your own marginal tax rate as compiled by NerdWallet, based on the Internal Revenue Service’s revision to the tax-bracket ranges published last October.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maxwell had access to a digital legal database, but he sometimes relied on acquaintances outside prison to look up cases or articles and send him physical printouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

He said: "I've never had anyone to look up to in my life, until Albie."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

“It’s down the hill from here but I didn’t look up that part.”

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila




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