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locate

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




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The park was excavated as part of a 500-day national drive launched in March, touted as Vietnam's largest push to locate some of the hundreds of thousands missing since the war.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

By searching for these signatures, astronomers can locate galaxy clusters that might otherwise be difficult to detect.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

A Navy spokesman said that without his date of birth or other identifying information, it “cannot accurately locate this Sailor in our records.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

An Interpol red notice was in force at the time, requesting law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest Al-Marimi, pending his extradition or surrender.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Maybe she could use the telescope to locate Seth.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Where “Neon Summer Skin” locates it in the invincible abandon of a day at the pool, “Canopies” finds it in the paradox of protection through separation and the bond capable of surviving it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

Ms Wall locates the former burial sites using press images, local stories and flowers left on posts but said she had learnt to identify “very clear signs”.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

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 kerosene has evaporated from the wood by the time he locates the matches.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

“You could have a reactor located next to a river, but that river is running dry,” says Bøe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Cuban-American bakery is bringing its yellow boxes to a new location in Ontario, located near Interstate 10.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said it felt right that the "definitive Beatles experience" should be located in the city where the band's story began.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

It showed that the signals directing these T cells originate in lymph nodes located outside the brain.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Indeed, it wasn’t unusual for five or six men to squeeze into a car or onto the back of a truck to drive to a job that was located as far as eight hours away.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

“People don’t understand that locating in Houston is like moving a film company to Hollywood,” said Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

The academic added that locating data centres in "the most sensible places" could mitigate how big those impacts are by using more wind energy.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Even so, locating treatment-resistant regions that already exist inside tumors and understanding the cells that support them could eventually help researchers develop more effective combinations of cancer therapies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

“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

“Should you have any difficulty locating the road,” he said, “there’s a map of the forest in here.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs


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