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look for
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Princeton's WordNet
search, seek, look forverb
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
"The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
Synonyms:
attempt, anticipate, explore, look, research, essay, try, look to, assay, search, seekanticipate, look for, look toverb
be excited or anxious about
Synonyms:
predict, search, counter, foreknow, previse, seek, forestall, call, prognosticate, look to, anticipate, foresee, foretell, forebode, expect, promise
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look for
Synonyms:
expectlook for
Synonyms:
search, seek, look after
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#41 | search | |
#192 | research | |
#374 | call | |
#446 | look | |
#684 | try | |
#2277 | counter | |
#2323 | expect | |
#2508 | explore | |
#3056 | attempt | |
#3171 | seek | |
#4348 | promise | |
#5490 | essay | |
#8692 | predict | |
#11832 | assay | |
#14126 | anticipate | |
#34955 | foresee | |
#75403 | forestall | |
#99650 | foretell | |
#299067 | prognosticate |
How to use look for in a sentence?
I'm just grateful for everyone who pitched in and helped and came out to look for us, we're pretty lucky surviving and getting out of that.
The oil market continues to look for better days ahead with an increasing rollout of the vaccine, encouraging demand, while OPEC+ continues to restrain production.
There is no hopelessness, there is ignorance. There are no unsolvable problems in this life, there are only people who do not know how to fight and endure, and look for a way out. There is no way out except from the grave. But “No, I have a special case,” “God forbid, it’s easy to say.”
In a lot of the other lantersharks, these photophores are clustered in these really obvious black markings, so, you can imagine how difficult it is to look for black markings on an already very black shark. But under a microscope, you can actually see the dots themselves. They were there. We just didn’t see any of these really obvious clusters that you see in other sharks.
I just think it’s a bad look for the NHL to not get it right, i don’t really understand it.
Translations for look for
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- soekAfrikaans
- بحثArabic
- aramaq, axtarmaqAzerbaijani
- шука́цьBelarusian
- тъ̀рсяBulgarian
- খোঁজাBengali
- cercar, buscarCatalan, Valencian
- hledatCzech
- søgeDanish
- suchenGerman
- ψάχνωGreek
- buscarSpanish
- otsimaEstonian
- bilatu, xerkatuBasque
- جستجو کردنPersian
- etsiä, hakeaFinnish
- rechercher, chercherFrench
- cuardaighIrish
- sir, iarr, lorgScottish Gaelic
- buscarGalician
- חיפשHebrew
- ढूँढ़ना, खोजना, ढूँढनाHindi
- keresHungarian
- որոնել, փնտրել, ման գալArmenian
- mencariIndonesian
- sercharIdo
- leitaIcelandic
- cercare, ricercareItalian
- 探すJapanese
- ძებნაGeorgian
- жоқтау, іздеуKazakh
- ស្វែងរក, រក, រកមើលKhmer
- ಹುಡುಕುKannada
- 찾다Korean
- издөөKyrgyz
- quaeroLatin
- ຊອກ, ຫາLao
- ieškotiLithuanian
- meklētLatvian
- трага, бараMacedonian
- mencariMalay
- ရှာBurmese
- lete, leite, se etter, søkeNorwegian
- zoekenDutch
- leite, sjå etterNorwegian Nynorsk
- cercarOccitan
- szukaćPolish
- pesquisar, procurarPortuguese
- maskhayQuechua
- căutaRomanian
- иска́тьRussian
- trážiti, тра́житиSerbo-Croatian
- hľadaťSlovak
- iskatiSlovene
- kërkojAlbanian
- sökaSwedish
- ҷустуҷӯ карданTajik
- หา, มองหาThai
- agtarmakTurkmen
- aramakTurkish
- эзләргәTatar
- шука́тиUkrainian
- ڈھونڈھناUrdu
- qidirmoq, axtarmoqUzbek
- tìm kiếm, tìmVietnamese
- זוכןYiddish
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