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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

To inquire after; to look for; to seek.

To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

To examine; to try; to put to the test.

To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.

The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination.

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Search Quotations

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
Pablo Picasso

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West

We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow

Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.
Stephen Hawking

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal

Search Translations

search in Danish is ransage
search in Dutch is zoektocht, speurwerk, speurtocht
search in German is forschen, suchen, Nachforschung, durchsuchen
search in Italian is cerco, indagare
search in Portuguese is busca

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