search engine
noun
a computer program that searches documents, especially on the World Wide Web, for a specified word or words and provides a list of documents in which they are found.
search engines
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pluralof search engine.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Agents can live up to that name and be good organizational assistants, rather than souped-up search engines that can talk back to you.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
A.I.-driven search engines listed his clubs as permanently closed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Roberts put his academic background to work, steeping himself in traffic patterns and how search engines and users prioritized different types of content.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Companies pay search engines like Google to appear in the search results for everything from airplane tickets to skincare.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
She’d shake her head in that grown-up way whenever students relied only on online search engines and online encyclopedias.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
