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pursuit

noun as in occupation, interest of person

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In turn, car manufacturers have stepped up their pursuit of online sales.

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Regardless, the history of these kind of cases offers a hopeful track record that points to how merely the pursuit of anticompetitive business practices helps restore competition.

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Every individual is different, and can end up with varying problems in their pursuit of fat loss.

Julia Roberts played Brockovich and memorably portrayed the young legal assistant’s dogged pursuit of details, a trait that ultimately resulted in a $333 million settlement from the power company, the largest direct-action settlement in history.

Despite how useful it is, applying bioleaching to e-waste has mostly been an academic pursuit.

When I tried to persuade him to drop the title The Short Night, I proposed calling the picture Pursuit.

Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.

Was it Shakespeare, in mad pursuit of a lovely boy and that voluptuous Dark Lady?

The cops suspended the high-speed pursuit lest some innocent be killed.

They say The Guardian has been dragging its feet on the pursuit of NSA-related stories while keeping the Times on a short leash.

Now this is what we call a "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties" of the most obstinate kind.

About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.

Only in the pursuit of agriculture can the black man not complain that he is discriminated against on account of his color.

Colonel Guitar concluded to rest his men until morning, and then continue the pursuit.

The cheerful hours of easy labor vary but do not destroy the pursuit of pleasure and of recreation.

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On this page you'll find 110 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pursuit, such as: hunt, inquiry, quest, following, hunting, and pursual.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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