She finds apartments for strangers.

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birgit33

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"She finds apartments for foreigners." Is "finds" correct if one wants to indicate that she regularly finds apartments for foreigners ?
 

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"She finds apartments for foreigners." suggests that is what she does [for a living], so yes, it already indicates that she does it regularly. Another potential word would be "sources". If you said "provides" it would tend to suggest that she owned the apartments concerned.
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Interestingly,birgit, you have strangers in your title, but foreigners in your question.

In some languages, such as the French étrangers, the same word is used for both, but not in English.

I also notice that you have different words for them in Swedish.

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