"metal-detect" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "Flowerdew has three known cemeteries, containing Woodland Indians, 1620s colonists and enslaved individuals from about 1760. All three are in the area metal-detected last March. […] At the Little Bighorn Battlefield, in Montana, volunteers have used their metal-detecting machines to pinpoint artifacts, whose position rewrote the story of Custer’s Last Stand.",
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        "To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To use a metal detector to find metal objects on the surface or buried underground."
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          "ref": "2017 September 27, Mac McClelland, “When ‘Not Guilty’ Is a Life Sentence”, in The New York Times Magazine",
          "text": "“They’re testing you,” she said to her son, James, after she was finally cleared, metal-detected and led upstairs to the visiting room, a spare, linoleum-floored space inside the hospital’s high-security building.",
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        "(transitive) To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects."
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        "(transitive) To make (someone) pass through a metal detector to detect concealed metal objects."
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