Found and Locate

Found

Found verb - To be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of.

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Locate and found are semantically related In some cases you can use "Locate" instead a verb "Found".

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

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Found and locate are semantically related in put topic. Sometimes you can use "Found" instead a verb "Locate".

person	found person	locate person
girl	found girl	locate girl
friend	found friend	locate friend
man	found man	locate man
Other words: woman, thanks, body, family, treasure, someone, piece, home, book, mother, source, planet, bodies.

However, the objects are difficult to locate or reveal — research must be done, or inspiration must strike, before one of the hidden objects can be found.

Source: One True Sequence
This is extremely downplayed as once the first treasure is found (a magical dowsing rod that can locate anything), most of the rest are found off-screen in the following episode.

Source: Gotta Catch Them All aka: Gotta Catch Em All
Compare one case, where Lili has to locate a stolen bust, and another, where Lili's classmate is found murdered behind the gym.

Source: Manga / Zodiac PI

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