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look up verb

To have better prospects.“Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.”
To obtain information about something from a source (chiefly textual sources) by reading or looking.“I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.”
To track down or search for (someone that one used to know).

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consult get better improve search track down refer look to look into come up stay up write up use to look lay eyes on bring up get it see things come up with

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