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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?
The biggest thing to look for is the camera ; it's the Pixel's calling card, given the improvements by Samsung and Apple in this area, Google has to deliver an experience that is either on par or even better than what those companies have.
He's very very intelligent, I'll give you that, he wanted to be alone, so he left. He said he was hiding. But he would pull up his hoodie when he said he would go out early in the morning to go look for food.
Representative Jason Chaffetz:
Marco Rubio is not going to embarrass us ... He's not as sensational in his comments as the others, but there's a good quality to that, and I think that's also something you look for in a president.
We underestimated their external influence, since after the civil war we've not fought any war, we don't manufacture weapons, so we had to look for help to re-equip our army and the air force.
These telescopes were designed to look for diffuse light around galaxies. Not in the context of dark matter, but you can repurpose the data to look for this glow, [The Dragonfly telescopes] are really good at looking for this high contrast between the really bright galactic center and the really dim outskirts of galaxies.
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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