re-search

American

[ree-surch] / riˈsɜrtʃ /

verb (used with or without object)

to search or search for again.

Etymology

Origin of re-search

First recorded in 1740–50; re- + search

Example Sentences

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Surgeon General Thomas Parran was unduly grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Says Consumer Expert Fabian Linden of the Conference Board, a business re-search group: "All the pieces are in place for a lively Christmas season."

From Time Magazine Archive

These scholars regularly visit libraries in Japan and Taiwan; a key overseas source is Hong Kong's Universities Service Center, a foundation-backed depot of re-search documents that also serves as a refugee-interviewing station.

From Time Magazine Archive

We talked for a time and I explained my re-search project to him.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

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