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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of re-search.

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Examples

  • And, of course, that ` s one place that, of course, is going to be searched and re-searched as well.

    CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009 2009

  • I mean, you know, we did a search and re-searched in some areas.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

  • She searched and read and re-searched and re-read until she found this to be the very best vacuum.

    grizmom Diary Entry grizmom 2007

  • Volunteers have searched and re-searched an area nearly twice the size of New Jersey.

    CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2007 2007

  • Did you, rescue workers sort of like, how he was found, that is, was it an area that they searched before and re-searched?

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2007 2007

  • The evening edition of the paper stated that the greatest excitement continued in the Quartier St. Roch — that the premises in question had been carefully re-searched, and fresh examinations of witnesses instituted, but all to no purpose.

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

  • It was re-searched, and on the second search, a necklace was found.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2006 2006

  • The hijacker has been separated from the group and we had the Monroe County Sheriff's Office bomb squad search him and took two -- two items from this person and now the individual is being re-searched and come to a peaceful resolution.

    CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2003 2003

  • Lauren and I already knew, of course, that our property had been re-searched without result before I'd left the hospital that afternoon.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

  • Lauren and I already knew, of course, that our property had been re-searched without result before I'd left the hospital that afternoon.

    Warning Signs White, Stephen, 1951- 2002

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