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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
control-F en · VERB
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To search for text, as if by using the "Find in page" or similarly named function in a document viewing application, such as a web browser or a word processor.
Sometimes I wish I could just flip to a table of contents, or control-F my channel or my brain.
2024, Jessica McCabe, “Introduction”, in Elysia Liang, editor, How to ADHD, New York: Rodale Books, →ISBN, page viii:His lawyers just copied and pasted his defense from the last impeachment: Control-F ‘Ukraine,’ replace with ‘riot.’
2021 February 3, Trish Bendix, quoting Jimmy Fallon, “Trump’s Being Impeached Again, So It Must Be Groundhog Day”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2021, retrieved 21 Feb 2026:He’s charmingly bewildered by the complexities of life: Control-f a question mark in the lyrics of any of his albums and you’ll get plenty of results.
2025 July 7, Dash Lewis, “Mars is Electric”, in Pitchfork, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2025, retrieved 21 Feb 2026:
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