Setting grouped paragraph style with app.findTextPreferences.properties

I am trying to set my app.findTextPreferences using the .properties object... In particular, I need to set the appliedParagraphStyle property.
So I create an object like this:
{findWhat:"some text", appliedParagraphStyle:"ParagraphStyleX"}
but it does not work because "ParagraphStyleX" is in a Group.... I have tried "GroupX:ParagraphStyleX", "ParagraphStyleX(GroupX)" and everything else I can think of.... but have not been able to get it to work.
Does anyone know the proper form to use?
Thank you,

try
appliedParagraphStyle:myDoc.paragraphStyleGroups.itemByName("theGroupName").paragraphs.ite mByName("paraName")
where myDoc is a ref to active doc.

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