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searching

[sur-ching] / ˈsɜr tʃɪŋ /


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A sustained tech or stock-market correction, if one comes, could leave Washington searching for other ways to bolster economic growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

The experiment established that DHRS7 was the gene researchers had been searching for since the early 1990s.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Police are searching for a man who gained access to hospital wards and patients' files for several weeks while pretending to be a medical student, after he failed to appear for sentencing.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Kelly Hubbell, the founder and CEO of house-manager placement company Sage Haus, said her company has gathered a database of over 25,000 workers searching for this kind of gig.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

And there, Clare realized, was the answer he’d been searching for.

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


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