SEARCH (FOR OR OUT) Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

search (for or out)

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as in to pursue

to go in search of every year major league scouts crisscross the country to search for young players with promising talent

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In his view, that includes a public education fund, though there are dozens of states along with cities, counties and school districts that will all be pursuing various remedies.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 30 Aug. 2026
That lack of investment in domestic infrastructure has in turn helped enable governments led by Carney and his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, to pursue their virtue signaling net-zero by 2050 goals.

— David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

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The revelation of the changes comes amid intense competition in the AI industry, as companies release updates to their large language models at a frenetic pace, each seeking to pull ahead of the other.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
The department has sued 29 states seeking similar information and has lost in 23 of its cases so far, while many remain under appeal.

— Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

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The film’s opening scene has her wading naked in Hampstead Ponds at night, looking up at the blinking stars and naming the constellations to herself, then closing her eyes as if to let the galaxies above wash over her.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Burgos then looked up the woman’s driver’s license picture on the DMV database, which several officers told internal affairs probably violated department policy, according to the report.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

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