Verb
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.
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His lawyers just copied and pasted his defense from the last impeachment: Control-F ‘Ukraine,’ replace with ‘riot.’
Sometimes I wish I could just flip to a table of contents, or control-F my channel or my brain.
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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.