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as in to pursue
to go in search of
Henry Hudson was set adrift by mutinous crewmen while seeking the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean
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as in to request
to make a request for
came seeking financial advice
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Recent Examples of seek
Over millennia, the island has endured successive invasions from outsiders seeking to exploit the land.
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
Members need to be unified more than being talking-heads seeking individual attention.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Bryson DeChambeau could be seeking a pathway back to the PGA Tour sooner rather than later.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
His attorneys claim that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, available at the federal level, for those charges.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2026
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IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
Members need to be unified more than being talking-heads seeking individual attention.
—Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
Bryson DeChambeau could be seeking a pathway back to the PGA Tour sooner rather than later.
—Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
His attorneys claim that prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, available at the federal level, for those charges.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seek
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Within weeks of the invasion, when Russian units failed to quickly capture Kyiv, Putin switched to pursuing a war of attrition.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi pressed his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday to pursue a diplomatic resolution to the conflict and refrain from resuming hostilities during a meeting in Beijing.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
7 May 2026
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The vote requests that the department’s all-civilian watchdog adopt new guidelines similar to San Francisco, which bars police officers from pulling people over for broken taillights and other minor equipment violations unless there is a safety threat.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 May 2026
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Deputies determined Mattson was on felony probation and requested that Sacramento County Probation place a hold on him, but the department declined, according to the Sheriff’s Office.—
Corey Schmidt,
Sacbee.com,
6 May 2026
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Unions are now trying to encourage more teachers to sign up.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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The Pistons tried rallying for another fourth-quarter comeback but couldn’t muster the scoring or stops necessary to do so.—
Darnell Mayberry,
New York Times,
12 May 2026
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Bush talked openly about regime change in Tehran, supplying powerful incentives for Iran to desire nuclear weapons.—
John M. Crisp,
Mercury News,
9 May 2026
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At that very moment, the Mortal Kombat brain trust was looking for Johnny Cage, the fan-favorite character teased in the end of the previous movie, which was a hit on HBO Max, but left some things to be desired from fans.—
Aaron Couch,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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Kaikaku isn’t the first company to attempt to automate salad assembly.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
8 May 2026
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The group is attempting to extort the company, threatening to release massive amounts of student data if demands are not met.—
Tori Mason,
CBS News,
8 May 2026
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Since neither Bronin nor Larson achieved 50% on the first round, the delegates were required to vote again in a second round.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Meeting it would require me to sprint across the twentieth century.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was always expected to live a quiet life — but she’s sent on an entirely different path when her mother, a general in the military, orders her to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders, the elite of Navarre.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Vision Zero is the initiative striving to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
11 May 2026
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“Seek.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seek. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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