Find
Find verb - To come upon after searching, study, or effort.
Ransack
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Every Mario game with the same plot (ransack some castles, find the princess) is a flashback that Wario has.
Source: WMG / Super Mario Bros. -
Hence the reason he's helping to fight the Shadowkhan — he believes they know where one of the Trees of Life is hidden, and wants to ransack the library in their central fortress to find it.
Source: Immortality Seeker -
In the second half of the round, teams had 30 seconds to ransack the room in play to find a hidden object that matched a clue read by the host.
Source: Series / Finders Keepers
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Ransack and Find. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/find/ransack
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