locate

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To place; to set in a particular spot or position.

To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.

To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space. Joyce Carol Oates

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. Dave Barry

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him. Margaret Atwood

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. Manuel Puig

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. Henri Bergson

Trust, but locate the doors. Klingon Proverb

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