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[surch] / sɜrtʃ /




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In search of a more affordable option, she said she just might move to New York City.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

The dark photon search produced an especially intriguing result.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Five months into his job search, Tyler Stahl hasn’t contacted any recruiters, but they sure have contacted him — or people who claim to be recruiters.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

"At this time, our priority is people: caring for the injured, supporting their families, and continuing search and verification efforts," Justiniano said.

From Barron's Sep. 5, 2026

But as soon as he heard mention of an arctic hare, he rushed up and down all the burrow tunnels in search of Twitch, whom he of course could not find.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Still, the new theoretical framework could give researchers a powerful way to expand future searches and use Earth's natural electromagnetic environment as a tool for probing some of the lightest possible forms of dark matter.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

In April 2026, 20% of searches were conducted across more than 6,000 networks.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Search and rescue operations continued on Thursday, involving 18 vessels, five helicopters, two drones and an aircraft, as well as a navy vessel conducting underwater searches.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

The tactic is especially prevalent among the department’s elite Metropolitan Division and anti-gang units, several of which have come under investigation in recent years for failing to document the stops and improper searches.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Its searches after Truth, are a sort of Hawking and Hunting, wherein the very pursuit makes a great part of the Pleasure.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Unlike axions, dark photons can produce electromagnetic waves even when no magnetic field is present, so the researchers searched the dataset for the different signature those particles would be expected to create.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

In the Cypress-Fairbanks independent school district, a typical licence plate lookup in April 2024 searched around 270 networks of cameras.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

The number of people missing in the catastrophic flood that sliced through the border area between Nepal and Tibet exceeded 3,000 on Sunday, as rescuers searched for survivors.

From Barron's Aug. 30, 2026

Authorities also have filed criminal charges against a Google software engineer, Michele Spagnuolo, who allegedly earned $1.2 million trading Polymarket contracts pegged to who would be revealed as the most searched people of 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Sal and I searched, but we didn’t find much.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

The 58-year-old dad became hooked on the chain’s tea lattes in 2001, when he started dating his now wife and was searching for a sweet beverage to sip alongside her.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

"Given Saturn's symmetry in its north-south jet stream system, we have been searching for a counterpart to Saturn's northern hexagon on the south pole in Hubble images since 1990," Sánchez-Lavega said.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Nepali rescuers, aided by experts from India, China and South Korea, continue searching for survivors feared trapped inside hydropower tunnels, but teams have repeatedly hit dead ends, and no one has been confirmed alive.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

More than 10 years later, the brand has moved its headquarters to El Segundo and is still searching for its identity.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Clare had soon stopped searching the forest for the companionship he’d unexpectedly found in Captain.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman




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