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  • noun Plural form of searching.

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Examples

  • It was when strangers came, or summer boarders, or when the oldest girls grew up that my sharp senses noted little hesitancies in public and searchings for possible public opinion.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The federal appeals court in California ruled that when his boss reviewed those texts, that violated the fourth amendment, which protects from unreasonable searchings.

    CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

  • They were travelling for a dream and could give all, and must go on in their searchings and their unease, and the bonfire burned on in every edge of sight, whilst new searchers dug in the ashes and in the ground under the ashes, and it is dream that is happiness for those journeying.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009

  • In fact, it immediately after continues: "Likewise, other religions to be found everywhere strive variously to answer the restless searchings of the human heart by proposing 'ways,' which consist of teachings, rules of life and sacred ceremonies."

    CONFIRMED 2009

  • December 4th, 2008 at 5: 50 am new foundland lawsuit personal injury direct loans cash advancement says: new foundland lawsuit personal injury direct loans cash advancement … octagonal outfits peel: searchings?

    Think Progress » Much bigger than the Dukestir. 2006

  • THERE WERE TERRORS and commotions at night—house searchings, confiscations, arrests.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

    The Lost Jewish Culture Bloom, Harold 2007

  • Guitar string searchings, almost tunings, arrive at the right chord, then give way to a chiming, striving rhythm as Barrett describes his own stance in a desolate yet also fantastic landscape:

    Archive 2006-07-09 2006

  • For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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