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[ri-surch, ree-surch] / rɪˈsɜrtʃ, ˈri sɜrtʃ /




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Properties that needed a price reduction were half as likely to find a buyer within the normal three-month timeframe, according to Richard Donnell, executive director of research at Rightmove.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Mr. Trennert is chairman and CEO of Baird Strategas, a macroeconomic research firm based in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

In 2023, the European Pulsar Timing Array and other research collaborations reported evidence of this background.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Then we dive quite deeply into these interests through primary research, ethnographic research and interviews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

“I got to New York and I didn’t even know research existed,” she says.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The Wall Street Journal spoke to Goldin about how the company researches people’s passions and turns these into products and marketing campaigns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

"More than 100 UK-linked academics have contributed to projects funded by MSS via CGTRI," adding that in some cases the researches would not be aware of the front company's role in their project.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Your wife and her siblings are the “primary grievers,” says Joanne Cacciatore, a professor at Arizona State University who researches traumatic grief.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Bauer researches historical and contemporary right-wing movements in the United States and recently wrote a book called “Making the Liberal Media.”

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

By day, Evans is a kindly and now semiretired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of freelance work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

He frames his deeply researched four-hour psych eval “Musk” as the reality check we all need when the world’s richest, most cult-powerful human keeps pushing migration to Mars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

He said the battery was stolen a few months later and they researched a new one, but it would have been "quite a lot of money and I couldn't afford it at the time".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

They’ve researched history and the law, war-gamed what-ifs, divvied up responsibilities and drafted emergency lawsuits and temporary restraining orders so they can be hurried into court at a moment’s notice.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Several Anthropic researchers who spent time at Constellation were on the company’s alignment team, which researched how to keep AI models aligned with human values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

“Okay, we’ve got to get home and rest. We’ll start tomorrow. I think we’ve researched and prepared about as much as any witch could.”

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

She started researching anger after suspecting her female clients' suppression of it was the root cause of some of their physical conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

As these new subgenres started to come out in like 2018, I’ve been very passionate and researching that music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

MarketWatch: What surprised you most while researching the book?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Teran, a 25-year Ford veteran, said staff at Hermosillo had been researching other tactics for scaring off pigeons, especially a cohort of birds that had built nests in the plant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Why else would the head of the company he’d been researching be there looking for him?

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste


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