What Is This Fallacy?

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What is the fallacy of reaching a conclusion first and then searching for anything to support it?

Seems like this is a basic fallacy (and may have been discussed recently), but I can't put my finger on it.

This is the confirmation bias , but also can be adhoc reasoning . I see this more as a bias than a fallacy.

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