[
UK
/fˈaɪndɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈfaɪndɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈfaɪndɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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something that is found
the findings in the gastrointestinal tract indicate that he died several hours after dinner
an area rich in archaeological findings - the decision of a court on issues of fact or law
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the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation
the determination of molecular structures
How To Use finding In A Sentence
- Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
- Consumers get incredibly upset when dieticians and researchers backtrack on previous findings, proclaiming that products once deemed healthy are now in question.
- A lot of things are a lot smoother and less of a drag now than they were four and a half months ago—finding the food on the left side of my plate, threading my left arm into my left shirtsleeve, typing, reading. Left Neglected
- Although I have finally been given a small piece of work to do (nothing crucial, generous deadline), I'm finding it hard to apply myself after such a long period of enforced inactivity.
- There were bestiaries in the Library, she knew, but finding and getting access to them could be a problem. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
- I have been finding the BBC a bit vanilla of late and will check out Channel 4 news instead.
- If he fled, either before or after finding sureties, the borsholder and decennary became liable to inquiry, and were exposed to the penalties of law. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
- -- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
- We need first of all a fact finding mission and then we need to put together a coalition of conservators, a cultural coalition.
- He was afraid of waking up in the morning and finding that Jessie was dead.
