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searching
/ˈsɝː.tʃɪŋ/
Definition
1
The act of looking carefully or thoroughly for someone or something, often information or lost items.
2
Keen, penetrating, or probing, as in a searching gaze or question that reveals hidden truths.
3
In computing, the process of querying a database or engine to retrieve relevant data.
Examples
After spilling coffee on his laptop, Dave spent the entire morning searching for a dry towel and his sanity.
Her searching glance across the party crowd finally spotted the open bar, salvation in a sea of small talk.
The cat's searching paws under the couch unearthed a treasure trove of forgotten socks and one very confused remote.
In the endless scroll of doom, he was searching for cat videos but ended up learning quantum physics instead.