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The finder, who chose to remain anonymous, visited a wetland on Öland island and stumbled upon a rare Viking armband, the Kalmar County Administrative Board said in a March 11 Facebook post.—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025 To find out where to vote, visit the Minnesota Secretary of State’s polling place finder at pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us.—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 People search sites, also known as people finder sites, are a kind of data broker that specializes in collecting, organizing and selling access to personal information.—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025 The resulting pattern is actually a combination of a number of components including the finder patterns located top-left, top-right and bottom-left corners, the large squares, which let the scanner configure the proper alignment.—Davey Winder, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for finder
: a small telescope attached to a larger one for finding an object
b
: a device on a camera that shows the view being photographed by the camera
Legal Definition
finder
noun
find·er
1
: one that finds
the finder of lost property has a right to it as against the world, except against the true owner—McDonald v. Railway Express Agency, 81 S.E.2d 525 (1954)
2
: one that for a fee discovers a financial opportunity, passes it on to another, and may act as a go-between for but does not participate in subsequent negotiations between the involved parties compare broker
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