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look for

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. 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"

  2. anticipate, look for, look toverb

    be excited or anxious about

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  1. look forverb

    To search; to seek.

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  1. look for

    "Look for" generally refers to the act of conducting a search or seeking something or someone out with a specific intention or aim in mind. This phrase can apply to both tangible and non-tangible items, such as objects, information, or a particular person.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of look for in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of look for in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of look for in a Sentence

  1. Abraham Lincoln:

    If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

  2. Nic Newman:

    We continue to see a rise in the use of messaging apps for news as consumers look for more private (and less confrontational) spaces to communicate.

  3. Jeff Miller:

    Like a lot of things in food, you look for ways to reduce waste.

  4. Danny DeVito:

    I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

  5. Terence Shigg:

    All of our stops have to be immigration-related, if we do get drugs, the attorneys push to get the stop thrown out because we are immigration officers and we are only supposed to look for immigration violations.


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