discovered

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Police investigators discovered the modifications had been made when it was seized.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Researchers discovered that packed rice grains behave in an unusual way under pressure.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

He was unconscious for around five minutes and was discovered lying face down in the road by neighbours.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

The company developed a metric called “Mean Time to Adapt,” which measures how quickly an organization identifies, triages and fixes vulnerabilities once discovered.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

“Then we’ll stop and chat about what we’ve discovered in that silence.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix