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A left-facing magnifying glass.

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1. Searching; inspecting; investigating.
   • 2017 January 8, ITV, Twitter‎ (in English):

     Oxford's finest detective returns for a new series, but can he unmask a killer..? 🔍 🤔

   • 2017 December 3, August Ames, Twitter‎ (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 (in English):

     Time to read into some fancy European vacation pictures. 🔍 [subtitle]

2. Detectives.
3. (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.

4. (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.

• “left-pointing magnifying glass”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• 🔍 in Emojipedia, 2013–present.