HUNTS (THROUGH) Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

hunts (through)

verb

present tense third-person singular of hunt (through)

as in searches

to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something she hunted through old birth and marriage records to trace the family tree

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Those searches risk filtering out the candidates most likely to bring a perspective your bank lacks.

— Paul Davis, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Chief financial officer Meghan Frank will provide interim oversight of Lululemon’s global brand and technology functions while the company searches for permanent leaders.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of searches

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The surveillance tool scans thousands of pages of school board documents every 12 hours and flags anything controversial—from Title IX issues to curriculum changes.

— Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 13 Oct. 2026
The other person scans the code to connect and receive the files.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of scans

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On Uncle, fish narc sheds his past experimental impulses and finds a new identity within ebullient, feel-good college rock.

— Jeff Yerger, Pitchfork, 19 Oct. 2026
The basic model of competitive markets which one finds in an introductory economics textbook—where independent firms engage in cold arm’s-length transactions motivated by unadulterated self-interest—does not apply to the industry.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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