re-search

[ ree-surch ]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to search or search for again.

Word History and Origins

Origin of re-search¹

First recorded in 1740–50; re- + search

Example Sentences

In her desperate effort to help her husband, Angela has done extensive re-search on the VA, mental illness and the legal system, and has established an online petition asking that Aaron be released to a treatment center.

From Washington Times

I’ll refresh Twitter and search Twitter and see if anyone liked my Facebook post and check Chartbeat and re-refresh Twitter and re-search Twitter and fave someone’s tweet and notice a sentence in the piece I wish I’d written differently and check Chartbeat again and uuuugggggh, you can waste an entire day like this.

From Slate

We talked for a time and I explained my re-search project to him.

From Literature

Says Consumer Expert Fabian Linden of the Conference Board, a business re-search group: "All the pieces are in place for a lively Christmas season."

From Time Magazine Archive

These scholars regularly visit libraries in Japan and Taiwan; a key overseas source is Hong Kong's Universities Service Center, a foundation-backed depot of re-search documents that also serves as a refugee-interviewing station.

From Time Magazine Archive