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. John Tivey:

   In the face of a continued fall in the gold price the market will get to a point where smaller gold miners have no choice but to more aggressively look for merger opportunities or strategic investors in order to survive.

2. Reg Foggerdy:

   I might go back and look for my gun, it's still in the shrub.

3. Pope Francis:

   We ask forgiveness for the abuses in Ireland, we ask forgiveness for all the times that we, as Catholic Church, did not provide survivors of any kind of abuse compassion, to look for justice, and the truth, and concrete actions, so we ask forgiveness.

4. Christina Krenz:

   It often happens that squirrels which have lost their mothers look for a replacement and then focus their efforts on one person.

5. George Bernard Shaw:

   The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.