locate
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The hedgehog detection dog is being trained by Conservation Detection Dogs NI and will track down the tags if they fall off and help locate hedgehogs more efficiently.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
The trackers allow the charity to map exactly where the hedgehogs travel each night, including how many gardens they pass through, the roads they navigate, where they locate food and where they rest.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
If the brain started as a true tabula rasa, with no built-in connections, neurons would first need to locate and connect with one another.
From Science Daily • May 3, 2026
Bode explained that she had been unable to locate her virtual boarding pass for her connecting flight, so she approached the crew at the gate for assistance.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
His father and his mother and his brother George seldom could locate him by looking for him—usually they had to call him; and the house often echoed with cries of “Stuart! Stooo-art!”
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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