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Example Sentences

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A search of the residence found no one else inside.

From Los Angeles Times

I think people are just searching and finding out more and more the truth that if we look around us at the world of man, we’re not going to find real solutions.

From Los Angeles Times

Merriam-Webster’s primary opponent now is the Google search bar, whose definitions come from Oxford Language, the company that owns the Oxford English Dictionary.

From The Wall Street Journal

Younger adults are consistently searching for returns in a system that offers them few traditional ones.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cutting the list from 1000 candidates to about 150 confirmed switches greatly reduces the search area in the non-coding genome for genetic clues linked to Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily