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Meaning of oversearch | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To search all over.
    archaic, transitive
  2. To search excessively.

Examples

“To oversearch the fearful ocean”
“But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!”
“Oversearching: If you look long enough and hard enough for any particular pattern in a data set, the more you look, the more likely you are to find it—whether it's meaningful or not.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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