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locate

[loh-keyt, loh-keyt] / ˈloʊ keɪt, loʊˈkeɪt /




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About an hour after sunset, face south and locate the Moon.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

He appealed for specialised assistance, including heavy-lift drones and technology to help locate people who are trapped.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

"We are just three months into our deployment and the technology has already helped locate over 100 leaks, which has saved the equivalent of two million litres of water every day."

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

If you went in hoping to fish out a couple of rocks and an old boot, though, it wasn’t so hard to locate exactly what you were looking for.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Marlena looks back just long enough to locate her frothy drink and then holds it over the table while we clink.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

When a store puts in an order, a robot locates the correct bin, grabs the tote using extendable metal arms and carries it to a glass elevator that delivers the item to a human.

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

Another early highlight, Reliquia, chops and splices a chamber quartet into unrecognisable electronic patterns, as Rosalía reconciles herself to the idea that she loves too hard, and locates the beauty in that vulnerability.

From BBC Nov. 6, 2025

He still lives in Seattle, consults for transportation clients, and joined the board of a company that locates underground utility obstacles, like those which delayed the new Tacoma Link Hilltop Extension streetcar.

From Seattle Times May 21, 2024

The section of “Mandate for Leadership” dedicated to laying out a program for the future Trump Justice Department locates the discussion of the federal death penalty in a broad but familiar context.

From Slate May 14, 2024

Crouching in the lee of what was a tourist gift shop—a few souvenir plates in their racks, each with a different name painted on the rim and arranged alphabetically—Werner locates himself in the city.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Several cars filled the streets around South Figueroa Street and West Alondra Boulevard, where police told OnScene.TV they’d towed about 160 vehicles, made dozens of arrests and located six guns.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Because mice generally prefer to escape the water, they gradually learn where the platform is located.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

Spanish Maritime Rescue teams located the vessel some 65 nautical miles southwest of Gran Canaria's coastal town of Arguineguín on Wednesday and found 44 survivors, with five dead bodies also on board.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The addresses were located in neighboring office buildings in Malé, with the Aeroflot office sandwiched between them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

The tall arched windows were wide open, but it was still uncomfortably hot and stuffy in the Convention Hall’s auditorium, located on the corner of L and 5th Streets in Washington, D.C.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

“Without locating and examining the animal,” she said, “we can’t determine what may have caused the reported aggressive behavior.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

"When Microsoft and Amazon do business here in NSW, it's pleasing to see they are committed to providing some of their more skilled operations and locating them here," he says.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

If Iran manages to lay more mines, then U.S. forces are left with the hard task of locating and clearing them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

She appealed for help locating her parents and the other Malaysian pilgrims.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

“Good night,” the children said, their voices locating them in the darkness.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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