Detect
Found
Found verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The heroes manage to find it by setting the sensors to detect air and the ship is the only place where no air can be found.
Source: See the Invisible - Oleg, the protagonist, found a spell to detect precious metals underground and already thought of using substitutes for a "dragon's vertebra" - a dinosaur's vertebra from a museum, and for "river-horse hair" - a hair of a tame hippopotamus from the zoo.
Source: Eye of Newt - One of the plot points is cocaine that drug dogs can't detect; when the title characters bring it in, they're told they've found powdered sugar.
Source: Mistaken for Evidence
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Found and Detect. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/detect/found
Detect & Found. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/detect/found>.
Found or Detect. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/detect/found.
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