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So hilarious that someone actually searched the codebase for 'retard' and then assumes it's a slur in french too.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

(transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

Meaning at a glance

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

verb

(transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

verb

(intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

verb

(transitive) To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for searched.

verb

(transitive) To look in (a place) for something.

verb

(intransitive, followed by "for") To look thoroughly.

verb

(transitive) To put a phrase into a search engine, especially one besides Google.

verb

(transitive, now rare) To look for, seek.

Example sentences

So hilarious that someone actually searched the codebase for 'retard' and then assumes it's a slur in french too.

He searched through his pockets but only found the end of his headphones cable, disconnected, and no phone to be found.

During the time he was detained and searched, the man said he was asked weird questions including how many times a day he prayed?

The link to the json-wiki page is perfect as well, that is exactly what I searched and did not find.

I've searched for other beverages that have the depth of variety and nuance of these, and I just can't find them.

There should be a way to block domains that you don't want searched, otherwise secret URLs such as youtube private links, google docs, etc are exposed.

Ironic considering they painstakingly searched out each artist to buy their music, only to stop when they learn it will take two days to get it?

I searched every store in several cities (in several countries!) to no avail...

So I searched the ina.fr site, but apparently they haven't digitized it.

I wonder what would happen if you searched for.svn, too.

This strategy (showing more of what was searched) is certainly not optimal; but it's quite simple, and I'd say it's almost certainly better than showing random products.

I recently searched for something like this, without success.

Quote examples

Shame that these people didn't go "organic" and searched for the real deal in living in a real commune and not that synthetic one.

So I searched and eventually came across an open-source "Catch the demon" game[1].

So I was an iOS developer getting considered for Android position, and they said "hey it's great you can code fast & all, but can you learn fast?" and told me to create an Android app that searched images on Google.