Detect and Look

Detect

Detect verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.

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Look and detect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Look" instead a verb "Detect".

Look verb - To give the impression of being.

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Detect and look are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Detect" instead a verb "Look".

Nearby Words: lookout, looked, looker, looking, lookup

character	detect character	look character
people	detect people	look people
good	detect good	look good
someone	detect someone	look someone
Other words: characters, evil, humans, powers.

Planes can't detect tanks and give them markers, so a bomber will have to look for unmarked targets visually.

Source: Video Game / War Thunder
In Dollhouse a woman's murder is made to look like a heart attack using an overdose of a performance-enhancing drug for horses and a masking agent that made it difficult to detect after the fact.

Source: Make It Look Like an Accident
Just look through the two seasons and count how often Nunnally seems to be able to detect something that she shouldn't really be able to.

Source: Guinea Pig Family

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