verb / noun · neutral
search
UK/sɜːtʃ/US/sɝːtʃ/SEARCH
to look for information (often on the internet); (noun) the act of looking for information
Examples
“I searched for reliable sources on the topic.”
“Use specific keywords when you do an online search.”
“The search returned many useful articles.”
Band 8 sentence
“When researching my essay, I searched academic databases and filtered results by date to find the most relevant studies.”
Collocations
- search for information
- search engine
- do a search
Word family
Common mistakes
I searched in Google for articles.→I searched Google for articles.
I search the website about prices.→I searched the website for prices.
Say it for a higher band
5look for→6find→7+search
Synonyms
look for
Easily confused
look for
“I used Google to search for the study, but I also looked for books in the library.”
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