SEEK OUT Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

seek (out)

verb

Definition of seek (out)

as in to look up

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as in to cast about

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Verb

The dressing room was now populated by brightly dressed women, all of whom looked up from applying makeup to stare tightly at her in the doorframe.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2026
The best way to watch the meteor shower is to sit in a reclining lawn chair or lie on your back and look up at the sky with a wide view.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of look up

Verb

Next came an exhibition around a creepy Howdy Doody-ish figure that met countless violent fates while being cast about mechanistically on chains in 2016.

— Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Meriwether’s video comes after comments from the show’s cast about a reunion.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of cast about

Verb

So strong was the Chicks’ commercial pull that their 2002 album Home—a trend-averse acoustic bluegrass album essentially recorded in secret—became a gargantuan hit, with two of its songs reaching the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

— Shaad D’Souza, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2026
The banking chief, whose total compensation reached $47 million in 2025, has built an audience of over 250,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.

— Preston Fore, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of reach

Verb

The scientists used data from NASA’s exoplanet-hunting satellite Kepler, which searched for exoplanets via very precise, high-cadence brightness measurements of hundreds of thousands of stars.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026
Bonding over their passion for interiors, antiques hunting at the open market, the meeting resulted in a new holiday home collaboration unveiled in September.

— Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

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