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You want to find a manager who thinks of himself as your equal rather than your slaver.

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Quick take

a productive insight

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of find gathered in one view.

noun

a productive insight

noun

the act of discovering something

verb

come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for find.

noun

a productive insight

noun

the act of discovering something

verb

See also: happen, chance, bump, encounter

verb

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"

See also: detect, observe, discover, notice

verb

come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!"

verb

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

verb

come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"

verb

perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"

verb

get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"

verb

make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

verb

make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"

verb

obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"

verb

decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty"

verb

receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

verb

perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"

verb

get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"

verb

succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark"

verb

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

Example sentences

You want to find a manager who thinks of himself as your equal rather than your slaver.

From CTO of 10genFirst, I tried to find any client of ours with a track record like this and have been unsuccessful.

I didn't have the pager that week, but that didn't matter to the boss[4], who knew I'd been the one to find the issue.

Or if they find they need a law to make conduct lawful, they just write a new law or reinterpret an old one and keep on going.

I agree that this is poor planning on my part, however, I'm 35 and no one expects to find out that they are going to die at 35.

In fact I myself find the website disturbingly daunting, and I worked there for over half a decade.

I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying.

May she find a powerful new outlet for those talents as she moves forward, even in a difficult environment.

People have often speculated about how much cheaper launch services might be if they were in the private sector -- now we can find out. The preliminary signs are very good.

From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money.

Please, come find the guy who took all of our illegal drug money and give it back to us so we can continue to say you aren't necessary.

That may be true, but to me it sounds like you're possibly not doing well enough to make any of that possible, and you probably need to find work fast.

It's rare that you can find candid descriptions of what it's like to work somewhere.... since Steve felt free to be candid, I figured I'd share my experiences.

I think that not having points has some nice qualities, but it also feels like I'm being denied information that I find useful in reading/skimming a thread.

"I read a great article a while back that I unfortunately can't find now, but it talked about a CEO who thought he was having a casual "hey, I'm interested in developing my skills, can you mentor me a bit?

Paypal decisionmakers might at this point give Indiegogo the sort of look a school psychologist gives a C student with a drug habit who has just announced that they're taking a semester off to find themselves, man.

If any potential investors even sniff the possibility, they'll run and never look back while your current investors will raise holy hell, even if the CEO+CTO were able to find some fig leaf of justification.

If each bounce goes through a team with a 15-minute response time, it can be hours before the right team finally finds out, unless you build a lot of scaffolding and metrics and reporting.- every single one of your peer teams suddenly becomes a potential DOS attacker.