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accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
e.g. My son went to Berkeley to find himself
Synonym: find oneself
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receive a specified treatment (abstract)
e.g. These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation
e.g. His movie received a good review
e.g. I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions
Synonym: receive get obtain incur
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come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
e.g. I feel that he doesn't like me
e.g. I find him to be obnoxious
e.g. I found the movie rather entertaining
Synonym: feel
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make a discovery
e.g. She found that he had lied to her
e.g. The story is false, so far as I can discover
Synonym: discover
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establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
e.g. find the product of two numbers
e.g. The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize
Synonym: determine find out ascertain
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decide on and make a declaration about
e.g. find someone guilty
Synonym: rule
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make a discovery, make a new finding
e.g. Roentgen discovered X-rays
e.g. Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle
Synonym: discover
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succeed in reaching
arrive at
e.g. The arrow found its mark
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perceive or be contemporaneous with
e.g. We found Republicans winning the offices
e.g. You'll see a lot of cheating in this school
e.g. The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions
e.g. I want to see results
Synonym: witness see
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discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
e.g. She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water
e.g. We found traces of lead in the paint
Synonym: detect observe discover notice
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perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
e.g. I found myself in a difficult situation
e.g. When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room
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obtain through effort or management
e.g. She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents
e.g. We found the money to send our sons to college
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get something or somebody for a specific purpose
e.g. I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener
e.g. I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing
e.g. The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter
Synonym: line up get hold come up
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get or find back
recover the use of
e.g. She regained control of herself
e.g. She found her voice and replied quickly
Synonym: recover retrieve regain
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come upon, as if by accident
meet with
e.g. We find this idea in Plato
e.g. I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here
e.g. She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day
Synonym: happen chance bump encounter
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come upon after searching
find the location of something that was missed or lost
e.g. Did you find your glasses?
e.g. I cannot find my gloves!
Synonym: regain