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Off-topic but this is the first time I've seen waldo used as a verb. It's not in the Urban Dictionary, but from the way you use it I take it that it means "to find the correct thing out of the sea of so many similar things", right?


It comes from the Heinlein short story Waldo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(short_story)

> Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones was born a weakling, unable even to lift his head up to drink or to hold a spoon. Far from destroying him, this channeled his intellect, and his family's money, into the development of the device patented as "Waldo F. Jones' Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph". Wearing a glove and harness, Waldo could control a much more powerful mechanical hand simply by moving his hand and fingers.



What you conjecture does sound like the defintion of “wally”, as in “where’s Wally?” Oh wait, it’s waldo in north america..




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