discover
Usage
What are other ways to say discover?
The verb discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: I discovered that she had been married before. To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: to learn a language. To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: to ascertain the truth about an event. To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: to detect a flaw in reasoning.
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Like a tennis player practicing serves, it’s by writing lines of code over and over that young engineers discover how to spot bugs—and learn from their mistakes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
“The goal of dating is to meet people and discover if there are mutual points of compatibility and fun,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The result is a huge database allowing analysts to watch all of a player's progressive passes, for example, discover who covered the most distance or simply ask 'find me a player like Ashley Cole'.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Flash fiction, sweeping histories and bold memoirs — discover the highly anticipated fiction and nonfiction our book reviewers are dipping into this autumn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
As the pilots climbed out of their planes, they were surprised to discover that Tamara and Raya had taken off while they were away.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
For the people who trusted Life Surge in part because they trusted him, what Tebow discovers may matter nearly as much as what regulators do.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
He also discovers the unlikeliest of love stories, making the appealingly discursive, touchingly oddball “History” feel like a bent, colorful flower poking out of the pavement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Khadijah had insisted on nursing their newborn Aziza with her own breast milk, but Latif discovers that only a few pouches remain in the fridge and formula makes his baby sick.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Randy Marsh, meanwhile, discovers the same opportunity from the opposite direction.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
But here in the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, he discovers that people are friendly.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Wigglesworth: I was going through Bank for International Settlements data and discovered the global bond market had become bigger than the banking system for the first time ever, sometime in the late 2010s.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Three white vans were discovered near the base on Sunday and the men -- all London-based Britons in their mid-20s -- were detained.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The Ventura County Sheriff’s bomb squad published an Instagram post about the discovered marker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
OpenAI says it is working to investigate a range of agent security incidents that it has discovered in recent months, and address the safety issues underneath them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
For the briefest moment, Clare thought he had been discovered.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Investors have historically afforded Chugai a premium valuation because of its track record of discovering and developing innovative drugs, the U.S. bank says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Netflix has a great reach, and it’s great that we’re on there and that people are discovering it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
After discovering his suppressed memories, Cramer began teaching meditation classes for others seeking to unlock the mysteries of the mind.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
On a fine sunny day in August the old friends met for the first time since discovering they were sisters.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Proclus credits Pythagoras, for example, with discovering the theorem we now call Pythagoras’s theorem, and Menelaus the theorem that is the mathematical foundation for Ptolemaic astronomy.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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