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The act of discovering something. To discover something.

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Usage examples (28)
  • It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
  • find someone guilty
  • Did you find your glasses?
  • These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
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  • Their attempt to find (to discover; recover; locate) a finned (having an external membranous process) creature in the lake resulted in being fined (to be ordered to pay a penalty for) for trespassing.
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