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I'm not sure how this works to put up a reply, but having the same problem, I found a solution not included in the followups:
 
Try it without the \ before the ;
 
c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe . -name "files to search pattern" -exec c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe "search string" '{}' \; -print
/usr/bin/find: missing argument to `-exec'
 
c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe . -name "files to search pattern" -exec c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe "search string" '{}' ; -print
<working search results>
 

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