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🔍	U+1F50D, 🔍 LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS

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Searching; inspecting; investigating.
- 2017 January 8, ITV, Twitter‎^[2] (in English):
  Oxford's finest detective returns for a new series, but can he unmask a killer..? 🔍 🤔
- 2017 December 3, August Ames, Twitter‎^[3] (in English):
  Do agents really not care about who they're representing? #ladirect I do my homework for my body🤓✏️🔍
- 2023 August 24, Mehera Bonner, “Fans Flood Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet's Comments With Theories They're Taking Each Others' Pics”, in Cosmopolitan‎^[4] (in English):
  Time to read into some fancy European vacation pictures. 🔍 [subtitle]
Detectives.
(graphical user interface) An icon to search something.
- 2005, Spotlight (in English):
  [This system-wide desktop search feature for macOS and iOS uses a left-leaning magnifying glass as its search icon.]
- 2022 December 5, Julian Chen, Second Life as a Virtual Playground for Language Education: A Practical Guide for Teaching and Research (in English), Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
  You can also use the Search function (🔍) to look for interesting events or places with their associated teleport links, maps, and information.
(graphical user interface) An icon to zoom in or enlarge content.^[1]

As a search icon, it often appears next to the search box of an application.

^ Robin Williams, Steve Cummings (1993) Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms‎^[1], Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 205: “You might also have a magnifying glass tool, or a menu command for FatBits or a command to Enlarge.”