{
  "id": "find.search",
  "term": "find",
  "sense": "search",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "find",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to get a thing that was searched for in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "get.acquisition",
      "search.action",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "the acquisition follows a search that occurs within a place",
    "novel_properties": [
      "located result",
      "knowledge of location"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Arecibo Observatory's 1974 message was found by a telescope in Ukraine 27 years later during a SETI reanalysis.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2012, physicists at CERN found the Higgs boson in collision data from the Large Hadron Collider after a 40-year search.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Workers found a 1930 time capsule beneath Boston's State House during renovation work in 2015, where records said it was buried.",
      "domain": "urban"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "get.acquisition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "memory.cognitive"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "find",
    "finding",
    "finds",
    "found"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-find.search"
}