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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
seek .
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Examples
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Bill Gaytten has been directing the studio while the label seeks a successor to John Galliano, who was fired in the spring, but Mr. Gaytten has not been seen as a likely candidate for the job since his couture collection, shown in July, was widely panned.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC WILSON 2011
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The word seeks to imitate the sound; a Roman farmer was probably responsible for the Latin grunire, “to grunt; to sound like a rooting pig or sickly cow.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The word seeks to imitate the sound; a Roman farmer was probably responsible for the Latin grunire, “to grunt; to sound like a rooting pig or sickly cow.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The word seeks to imitate the sound; a Roman farmer was probably responsible for the Latin grunire, “to grunt; to sound like a rooting pig or sickly cow.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The word seeks to imitate the sound; a Roman farmer was probably responsible for the Latin grunire, “to grunt; to sound like a rooting pig or sickly cow.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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This term seeks to lump together the task of expressing a meaning in a different language and transmitting a creative message to another culture, making the translator here a recreater as well.
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At first glance, the differnce between what Mohammed Taheri-azar did and what an organization such as Al-Qaida seeks is the difference between a teenager robbing the 7-11 and the mob shaking down store owners for protection money and commiting arson on those who don't pay.
Is That Legal?: In Defense of Worrying About The Word "Terrorist" 2006
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Now Griffin seeks more limelight from beyond the grave and Cowing is supposed to ignore that?
Mike Griffin Doesn't Seem To Miss NASA Watch - NASA Watch 2009
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Thus begins a long journey, a mirror of the Seven Samurai, where each man the boy seeks is one of the samurai, but each time he is disappointed.
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The DNA test Osborne seeks is a simple one, its cost modest, and its results uniquely precise.
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