trolled

verb

Definition of trollednext
past tense of troll
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to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something the owner of the bed-and-breakfast often trolls antique stores for furniture and knickknacks

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  1. searched
  2. found
  3. combed
Verb
  • After recapturing Jerusalem’s Holy Temple, which had been converted into a place of idol worship, the website says, the Maccabees searched for pure oil with which to light the Temple menorah.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The class of 2024 eagerly searched for jobs in Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte and Dallas — cities that aren’t as large or expensive as New York and San Francisco.
    — Christine Y. Cruzvergara, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of searched
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  • Alon-Lee Green, the founding co-director of Standing Together, a progressive grassroots movement, told CNN that young people aren’t at fault for the extremist attitudes that are dividing wider Israeli society.
    — Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That policy was targeted last year in a letter sent to Disney’s top brass by America First Legal Foundation, a conservative group founded by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 28 Mar. 2025
Definition of found
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  • Diamant and Kafka combed the park for it to no avail.
    — Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Even better, the researchers at GreenLight Biosciences combed through bioinformatic databases to find just the right gene to disrupt to avoid collateral damage to honeybees and other harmless species.
    — Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of combed
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