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UK
/fˈaɪndɪŋ/
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[ 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
- 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
- Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- I have been finding the BBC a bit vanilla of late and will check out Channel 4 news instead.
- 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.
- She talks to doctors and parents about the risks, finding that a number object to the jab and fear it will promote promiscuity. The Sun
- Finding a job should have been an occasion for rejoicing.
- Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon