trying to look up for the data vs trying to look for the data

Both phrases are correct, but "trying to look for the data" is more commonly used in English. The preposition 'for' is typically used after the verb 'look' in this context.

Last updated: March 26, 2024

trying to look up for the data

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase is grammatically correct but less common in English. It means attempting to search for or find the data.

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Trying to look up something you never saw and don't know the name of.
I am trying to look up a friend of mine who's staying at the hotel.
Dude, things are just starting to look up for us.
Another six years of the Taliban's despotic rule had gone by before things began to look up for democracy.
They were trying to get me to look up your S.A.T. score.
I think what Clark is trying to say is that it's great that The Blur has been there to be a role model for kids like you to look up to.
Anybody from your past you want me to look up for you?
Went to look up old World War II buddies or something.
A guy in a wheelchair always has to look up.
They're a great way to look up your nostril.
People need someone to look up to.
I needed someone to look up to.
Boy, is my life starting to look up.
They need to look up in the sky.
Used it once to look up Urkel.
What? I need to look up somebody's jacket.
I found the chapter Katrina told us to look up.
Things are finally starting to look up.
We got to look up the specs on the windmill.
It sounds like you guys need to look up justifiable homicide.

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trying to look for the data

trying to look for the data

This phrase is commonly used in English.

This phrase is the more common way to express attempting to search for or find the data. The preposition 'for' is typically used after the verb 'look' in this context.

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Nikki has been analyzing data trying to look for a common denominator.
But there are people trying to look for me.
I'm trying to look for Sam's next victim.
Please do not waste time trying to look for me.
But if you go trying to look for him, you both become targets again.
He's kind of shuffling down the hallway, trying to look for the light...
We're at a park in Connecticut just trying to look for it, and we'll be back by tomorrow.
So one way of trying to test the theory is to look for such chains inside connectomes.
Just trying to look for my soulmate.
Maybe he thinks they're trying to look for him.
He said he'd kill me if I even tried to look for the data.
For the same reason you're trying to look for someone you can't find.
In this regard, it is disgraceful that both the Commission and several Member States are trying to protect large lobbyists from the citizens by means of something that clearly looks like abuse of the data protection rules.
Which is why I live here in hiding, why I just killed someone trying to look for you, and why... why this is my future.
He's trying to cover his tracks by moving around, but in fact, he's making the pattern clearer and clearer, if you know how to look for it.
I studied all the new things that had happened in solar cells, and was trying to look for ways we could innovate and make solar cells more inexpensively.
Will you stop trying to look for a place to run?
You see, what the left were trying to do was to look for topics to raise objections about - why?
And prep an ultrasound to look for gallstones.
Probably wouldn't know what to look for anyway.

Alternatives:

trying to search for the data
attempting to find the data
seeking the data
trying to locate the data

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trying to look up for the data vs trying to look for the data