SEEKS (OUT) Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

seeks (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of seek (out)

as in looks up

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By contrast, a research assistant who simply looks up stock market data from Brazil, for example, could easily be replaced by AI.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
The stunner builds upon the boat builder’s existing Ultima 55 but adds a dose of Brabus’s propensity for dialing performance and looks up to 11.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 28 July 2026

Definition of looks up

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This week as a special treat, HBO release the first five minutes of the premiere episode that looks fantastic and reveals a much younger Hal Jordan being interviewed in 1996 and John Stewart's abusive family backstory involving a gun and an apple!

— Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Aug. 2026
For Marni's summer collections, Consuelo brought her idiosyncratic sensibility to looks that mixed ethnic and vintage elements with intriguing cutting.

— Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of looks

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Other governments, including the US, have their own rules and disclosure requirements, but beyond the breadth of the controls in China, the sheer number of people affected is striking – and reaches far beyond civil servants.

— Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
By July and August, the mountainsides have turned green, wildflowers bloom across the alpine tundra, and Skagway is at its busiest as the cruise season reaches its peak.

— Bailey Berg, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026

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Liz Meriwether sorta, kinda uses the 1987 thriller Black Widow — in which a government agent (Debra Winger) hunts a female serial killer (Theresa Russell) — as a starting point for a series that doesn’t even bear that title anymore.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2026
Now, everyone who hunts whitetails has heard about scrapes, and hunters who correctly utilize scrapes score more consistently than those who don’t.

— Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of hunts

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