seeking (out)

verb

present participle of seek (out)
1
as in looking up

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2
as in casting about

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seeking (out)
  1. looking up
  2. looking
  3. reaching
Verb
  • Shortly after giving his team a temporary lead on Monday, the athlete put his hands over his face before looking up at the sky and pointing upward, as shown in a video shared by Fox Sports.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Stannard remembers lying on the pavement and looking up at the blue sky, not yet feeling any pain, and realizing that he’d actually been hit.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of looking up
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  • Semiconductors are looking tenuous here, as traders try to gauge whether the air is coming out of a trade where the retail crowd are using leverage to double down on bets.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 17 July 2026
  • Resplendent in a dark top and flowered scarves, Jackie has his hair ratted out, creating a kind of nimbus around his poignant, ready-to-laugh face, which is powdered white, with shiny, metallic-looking paillettes around the eyes.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 17 July 2026
Definition of looking
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  • In the 3-2 win over Cape Verde in the last 32, Mac Allister did the same, with his flick-on reaching Lisandro Martinez, who scored the go-ahead goal in extra time.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • Wednesday and Thursday will be hotter, with temps in downtown LA reaching the middle to upper 90s and interior valleys reaching up to 105.
    — Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 13 July 2026
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“Seeking (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seeking%20%28out%29. Accessed 18 Jul. 2026.

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