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locate

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




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Last week, he launched a crowdfunding campaign for legal fees to "locate and safeguard" the explorer.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Stellantis will join other automakers who police advertised discounts, making it tricky to locate the lowest price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

They didn’t locate any weapons, but they did find a pair of detached pistol magazines.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Federal and local law enforcement have worked for more than six months to locate the elder Guthrie, without success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

“I will go upstairs to the triple zero room, locate the appropriate encyclopedia volume, and check both ‘Savonarola’ and ‘Shrove Tuesday.’

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

When a store puts in an order, a robot locates the correct bin, grabs the tote using extendable metal arms and carries it to a glass elevator that delivers the item to a human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

David Zinn’s scenic design sets up shop in a way that locates the scene without obstructing the play’s fluidity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

Ms Wall locates the former burial sites using press images, local stories and flowers left on posts but said she had learnt to identify “very clear signs”.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

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

If she locates us before we make it to the settlement, who knows how the Collective will punish him.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

The company has another packaging facility in California, located in Santa Fe Springs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

China opened its first overseas base in 2017 in Djibouti, an east African nation strategically located near the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

CMU will use the other $2 billion of the gift to launch a new campus in Miami, where Citadel’s headquarters is located.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

A surprise inspection by the Indonesian Ombudsman at Cibinong Prison in Bogor, West Java, revealed apartment-like units located just outside the main detention blocks.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

The plant was located just feet from the ocean, and that meant workers needed to move to high ground.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Even so, locating treatment-resistant regions that already exist inside tumors and understanding the cells that support them could eventually help researchers develop more effective combinations of cancer therapies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 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

She appealed for help locating her parents and the other Malaysian pilgrims.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

“Rhoda the unflappable,” as Leonie thinks of her, makes short work of locating her quarry in a run-down villa on the small Maltese island of Gozo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Should you have any difficulty locating the road,” he said, “there’s a map of the forest in here.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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