seeks (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of seek (out)
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as in looks up

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as in looks

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seeks (out)
  1. looks up
  2. looks
  3. reaches
  4. hunts
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  • Someone returning home after a long day looks up at the sky before opening their door, as if making a wish.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
  • At Cornell’s Student & Campus Life Center, a junior working the front desk looks up from her laptop, covered in colorful Bible-verse stickers, to nervously answer a few questions.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of looks up
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  • Glass doors open the room onto the terrace, which looks large enough for additional outdoor furniture, encouraging outdoor living.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026
  • That looks less like a chatbot and more like an organization.
    — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of looks
Verb
  • Board decisions bind immigration judges, so the ruling reaches every pending Venezuelan case.
    — Miguel Pimiento-Restrepo, Miami Herald, 13 Nov. 2026
  • The Concerns As with anything that reaches such teetering, scandalous proportions, a lot came together in the Huang(s) Affair.
    — Didi Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of reaches
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  • The species, native to Western Europe and Africa, has few predators, aggressively hunts its prey, and can consume a wide variety of shellfish, including oysters, clams, mussels, lobsters, and other crabs.
    — Victoria Malloy, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • They are trapped inside and have to complete six games and escape for a supernatural figure hunts them down.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of hunts
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