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view from under a piece of furniture draped with white cloth - through a gap in the cloth, a girl's face is visible upside-down, as well as her hand holding a torch, as she searches for something that has fallen underneath the furniture - illustrating the concept of finding and discovering things

Searching out and tracking down: talking about finding or discovering things

On By Liz WalterIn Idioms, the English language, Vocabulary8 Comments

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view from under a piece of furniture draped with white cloth - through a gap in the cloth, a girl's face is visible upside-down, as well as her hand holding a torch, as she searches for something that has fallen underneath the furniture - illustrating the concept of finding and discovering things
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by Liz Walter

My last post was about hiding things, and today I am writing about finding or discovering them.

Find is a very general word, used both for when you look for something deliberately or when you find it by accident. It is usually used to talk about an object or something you can see. For information, we are more likely to use the phrasal verb find out. Discover is used for objects and information, and tends to be used more when we find something by accident or for the first time:

I found my keys under a cushion.

How did you find out my address?

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