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locate

[loh-kayt, loh-kayt] / ˈloʊ keɪt, loʊˈkeɪt /




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Remote and difficult terrain complicates fieldwork, while the seasonal appearance and often hidden nature of fungal reproductive structures make some species especially difficult to locate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

In March, French newspaper Le Monde was able to locate the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in almost real time in the eastern Mediterranean, thanks to a sailor on board using the app.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

Researchers will work to locate what has been called the Taraia Object, first spotted sitting on the edge of a lagoon off Nikumaroro in satellite imagery in 2020.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

But they can’t locate a cheaper version of that mountain cabin you’ve been eyeing, because it might only be available on Airbnb.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Half of the postmark—the half we need to locate Mom—is missing.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

When the head clerk asks Stormfield where he’s from, an assistant locates Earth on a map—it’s designated “The Wart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Another early highlight, Reliquia, chops and splices a chamber quartet into unrecognisable electronic patterns, as Rosalía reconciles herself to the idea that she loves too hard, and locates the beauty in that vulnerability.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

He still lives in Seattle, consults for transportation clients, and joined the board of a company that locates underground utility obstacles, like those which delayed the new Tacoma Link Hilltop Extension streetcar.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2024

The section of “Mandate for Leadership” dedicated to laying out a program for the future Trump Justice Department locates the discussion of the federal death penalty in a broad but familiar context.

From Slate ● May 14, 2024

Orienting herself from there, she locates another, gently pushing open the paper door to find a ring of tiny chairs representing her own performance space.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Later in the day, a California Highway Patrol helicopter located a deceased climber on that route, but a storm system soon moved into the area, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Malibu dwelling was located in Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park, which is considered to be one of the most famous and luxurious trailer parks in the country.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026

For over a century they turned to predictions from betting markets, the largest one located just outside the New York Stock Exchange.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

This network, known as the magnetic canopy, extends through the chromosphere, a layer of the solar atmosphere located above the Sun's visible surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

I notice a pulsing green dot in the hologram above us, located in the Sands of Asase level.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Working with Professor Yi Chen's group at Vanderbilt University, the researchers realized they could use Z bosons as a "tag" for locating and measuring wakes created by individual quarks.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Students spent weeks searching library catalogs, locating journal articles, reading books, organizing notes, developing arguments, drafting and revising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"When Microsoft and Amazon do business here in NSW, it's pleasing to see they are committed to providing some of their more skilled operations and locating them here," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“Without locating and examining the animal,” she said, “we can’t determine what may have caused the reported aggressive behavior.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

I say ‘more remarkable’, for it is discovery itself which has transformed our world, in a way that simply locating a new land mass could never do.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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