to search for answers

Examples

• All

• They are frustrated that their program is failing, and they are searching for answers.

  Blog text (2)

• Jon and Andy search for answers in order to separate fact from fiction.

  Drain the Bermuda Triangle (2014)

• And so when we start to search for answers, many times we can start to think that it was our fault.

• I have no option but to search for answers.

  Blog text (6)

• Sometimes you can search everywhere for answers.

  Election (1999)

• Scientists all over the world are always searching for answers.

  Blog text (10)

• The historian must ask productive questions about specific unique events and then search for answers to these questions.

  Academic text (1991)

• This prompts students to search for answers to their questions when they begin working with the technology.

  Academic text (2009)

• Without a single unified voice, humanity has been left searching for answers to the unknown.

  In a World... (2013)

• Lois Severson spent months searching for answers about her daughter's mysterious illness.

Synonyms

L

to look for

vsto search for answers

∞ 1.0

To try to find something or someone

aims to find solutions or information to solve problems or satisfy curiosity

S

search

vsto search for answers

∞ 1.0

An act of looking for something or someone

is narrower, targeting solutions rather than any item

L

to look up

vsto search for answers

357 1.4

To find information about something in a book, list, or online

focuses more on finding practical solutions rather than only factual sources

Antonyms

I

to ignore

∞ 1.0

Choose not to pay attention to someone or something

How Thorough

research

∞ 3.4

to investigate

∞ 2.8

to search for answers

8 3.0

to look up

357 1.4

to ask

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology