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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary is based on the world’s largest collection of information about the way the English language is written and spoken in our time—a citation file of over 14½ million examples of English words drawn from actual use, more than 1 million collected since the last edition. The volume also includes: well-drafted Definitions and Pronunciations, Extensive...

find•ing [Middle English, from Old English findan; akin to Old High German findan to find, Latin pont-, pons bridge, Greek pontos sea, Sanskrit patha way, course] (before 12th century) transitive verb 1 a : to come upon often accidentally : ENCOUNTER b : to meet with (a particular reception) 〈hoped to find favor〉 2 a : to come upon by searching or effort 〈must find a suitable person for the job〉 b : to discover by study or experiment 〈find an answer〉 c : to obtain by effort or management 〈find the
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