"search for flaws" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It typically means to carefully examine something in order to identify any imperfections or weaknesses. Example: As part of the quality control process, we will search for flaws in the production line to ensure that our products meet all standards and specifications.
He studies videotapes every day to search for flaws.
Shouldn't we instead search for flaws in our schools and teaching — holding us, the adults, primarily responsible?
The technology is most commonly used to study materials to search for flaws on the surfaces of lenses or microchips, for example.
In the same way, mightn't it be said of her intelligence, her kindness, even her goodness of heart, that they encourage a search for flaws, that they incite in their admirer a secret craving for ignorance, confusion, and spiritual failure?
If Williams wants his viewer to search for flaws, then we can pick out the long shadow cast by the tree trunk and the darkening sky over the ocean.
But not everyone appreciates Mr. Dawson's dogged search for flaws, especially sellers who cringe as he shines his flashlight into every nook and cranny of their houses looking for structural framing problems, leaking fuel tanks, rusted fixtures, cracked foundations, missing roof shingles and loosened mortar between the bricks in chimneys.
Mies has been much picked over by critics searching for flaws.
Rick White, the Mets right-hander who has struggled lately, studied videotape on Wednesday, searching for flaws.
She inspected herself in front of any mirror, searching for flaws like a teen-age girl before a big party.
While I browsed I found myself searching for flaws in the books that might have made them undesirable to library patrons — too many autobiographies thinly disguised as fiction?
Some of what various scientists learn may be technical, perhaps about statistical tests of experimental results; but much is very general – about consulting the best authorities, searching for flaws in one's own arguments and procedures, and being open to criticism.
