Appropriate
Appropriate verb - To take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual right.
Search and appropriate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Search" instead a verb "Appropriate".
Search
Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Appropriate and search are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Appropriate" instead a verb "Search".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The godlike humanoid Kamir in Other Space utilized their blindingly powerful telepathy to help them search for appropriate lifeforms for their evolutionary experiments.
Source: Telepathic Spacemen -
Stephen's search for a wife involves searching for appropriate families with more or less eligible women, whose consent, based on the actions of their relatives, may not be free and willing.
- Although he starts the game at Level 1, as appropriate for an RPG hero, he's already traveled all over the world of Veldime looking for Overlord Zenon, whom he's sworn to defeat — and Veldime has some pretty dangerous regions to search through.
Source: Overrated And Underleveled
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Search and Appropriate. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 31, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/appropriate/search
Appropriate & Search. N.p., 2016. Web. 31 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/appropriate/search>.
Search or Appropriate. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/appropriate/search.
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