Synonyms for look for
look for

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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"

   Synonyms:
   attempt, anticipate, explore, look, research, essay, try, look to, assay, search, seek

2. anticipate, 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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1. look for

   Synonyms:
   expect

2. look for

   Synonyms:
   search, seek, look after

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1. Paul Hertz:

   We can see water in the interstellar clouds from which planetary systems and stellar systems form. We can see water in the disks of debris that are going to become planetary systems around other stars, and we can even see comets being dissipated in other solar systems as [their] star evaporates them. i'm a field geologist; I go out and break open rocks and look for fossils.

2. Rodrigo Duterte:

   The (rifles) that were ordered already. I am ordering the police to cancel it. We’ll just have to look for another source that is cheaper and maybe as durable and as good.

3. Joe Ching:

   I moved to Taiwan to look for another way forward because I don't want my children to have any interaction or link with mainland Chinese.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   If they call a pause for such a rare event, you can be sure that they take safety very, very seriously, if any degree of hesitancy is related to continued concern about safety, you just need to look at the system, which is highly sensitive in using surveillance to look for adverse events.

5. Albert Einstein:

   A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.