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look·ing for

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. looking, looking fornoun

    the act of searching visually

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  1. looking for

    Looking for refers to an act of searching, seeking, or trying to find something or someone. It implies a conscious effort to locate or obtain a particular object, person, or information.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

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

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of looking for in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of looking for in a Sentence

  1. Bryant Carr:

    I don't look dangerous. I'm a black man in a white area in the wrong area. They were looking for a guy in a blue shirt and I clearly had a white T-shirt, i cried. I cried. I didn't even do anything.

  2. Arlette Lyons:

    I was horrified, the thought of progressing with the pregnancy and getting bigger and people asking,' oh, when are you due ?' and' have you got the room done up ?' and' are you looking for a boy or a girl ?' and all of these questions -- I was never going to put myself through that.

  3. Mark Rosekind:

    You can either have safety or you can have blame, we're looking for ways for the entire agency and the entire safety system to get better so this stuff doesn't happen in the future.

  4. Tia Cochran:

    I'm just scrambling, looking for options.

  5. Michelle Kenney:

    This was definitely his spot right here, if you was looking for Antwon, you’d find him on the basketball court.


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