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/sɝt͡ʃ/ noun A2- An attempt to find something. · With only five minutes until we were meant to leave, the search for the keys started in earnest.
- The act of searching in general. · Search is a hard problem for computers to solve efficiently.
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Marilla went to her room and made a thorough search, not only over the bureau but in every other place she thought the brooch might possibly be.
“How long have you allowed us to waste ourselves upon a search that you knew to be an absurd one?”
## Chapter XII The Search for the Wicked Witch
Why didn’t they search more vigilantly?
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