as in searches
to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something
rifled the desk drawer in search of the insurance policy
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Noun
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Back then, students halted studies to pick up rifles, muskets, and bayonets.
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The new United States needed muskets, cannons, ammunition, uniforms, cloth, food and credit.
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Search data tracked by WWD shows lymphatic massage searches up 150% since 2021, face brush searches up nearly 2,850% and vibration plate searches up roughly 3,100% since 2020.
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The risk from mass tourism Indira Navarro, who leads a civilian group in Jalisco that searches for missing people, said disappearances of young girls often spike during large sporting events.
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The lawsuit targets legislation that took effect Wednesday and bans the sale of pistols that can easily be converted to fully automatic weapons, or machine guns.
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The law goes after Glock-style pistols, which can be converted into fully-automatic machine guns.
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Zayas also combs through the dark web, a criminal haven on the internet where anonymous threat actors try to cause real-world harm.
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After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel combs the depths of the Vistula River day and night, caught in a grueling, endless routine and torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the fragile hope that his son may still be alive.
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The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.
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Dark Web Monitoring scans the dark web for your data, and Privacy Monitor seeks your data profile on data broker and aggregator websites.
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Then, as the afternoon sunshine rakes across the river valley, the group will return to the Birdwing—where canvas and paints await, according to a news release.
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Participants are encouraged to bring their own shovel, gloves, and rakes as limited tools will be provided at the event.
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“Rifles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rifles. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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