- present participle of search.
searching
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The Journal spent a night out with the nocturnal biologists who pull graveyard shifts on South Dakota’s prairie, searching for black-footed ferrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Police are searching for a man who gained access to hospital wards and patients' files for several weeks while pretending to be a medical student, after he failed to appear for sentencing.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
“We’ve partnered with nearly every major frontier AI lab and security company searching for flaws in existing software.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The experiment established that DHRS7 was the gene researchers had been searching for since the early 1990s.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
A hawk circles above, riding on the thermals, searching for mice tunneling through the fields.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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