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Idiom

nowhere to be found

Meaning

not present; missing or lost.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“My keys are nowhere to be found.”

“I looked everywhere for my passport, but it was nowhere to be found before my flight.”

“Despite an exhaustive search of the entire property, the missing documents remained nowhere to be found, leaving the investigators with no leads.”

Examples

simple

“My keys are nowhere to be found.”

contextual

“I looked everywhere for my passport, but it was nowhere to be found before my flight.”

complex

“Despite an exhaustive search of the entire property, the missing documents remained nowhere to be found, leaving the investigators with no leads.”

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