News of the factory closing found workers scrambling to find jobs.

[WilliamTaft]

"Scramble" in The Britannica Dictionary:
1. b : to move or act quickly to do, find, or get something often before someone else does
News of the factory closing found workers scrambling to find jobs.

What does "found" mean in this sentence?

 

[emsr2d2]

If it helps, you can read it as "If you'd gone to the location when news of the factory closure broke, you'd have found workers scrambling to find [other] jobs".

 

[jutfrank]

I say it's essentially causative. One event led causally to the other.