hunt
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Join police on the hunt for high-tech thieves behind a wave of UK car crime.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Li, 28, estimated he has applied for roughly 100 jobs since he started his hunt last fall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Equally, Renshaw could stay in the middle order and Green return for fellow-all-rounder Beau Webster, meaning Australia's hunt for a settled opening pair would continue.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
And also involves a sort of treasure hunt and some digging in the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
No more grooming-nibbles in the morning; no more uproarious games of hide and hunt… Torak bit his knuckle, fighting his fear.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Call off the swarms of lawyers and PR handlers, the howling about railroading and witch hunts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Colosseum, the largest amphitheatre in the world, was built in the first century and was used to host events like animal hunts and gladiatorial games.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Many people are sticking with their current job, knowing that unemployed workers have to trudge through job hunts that last for months.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
In the past, other parts of Scotland - including Orkney and Shetland - also had seabird hunts.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
He hunts in these woods — he killed a wild boar.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
It hunted in the water, using teeth with backward-curving cusps to grip slippery prey.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
I recently watched with smug satisfaction as OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra model hunted through spreadsheets to reconcile an uncooperative credit card statement and then navigated QuickBooks to make sure it was reflected in the right places.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ms. Jeon, by contrast, has a haunted, hunted and withdrawn presence—moving among her family and friends as if her mind and spirit are continually elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have hunted these majestic animals for food.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
I stumbled through the humid darkness, knocking into trees, blind as a hunted animal.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Animals that spend less energy getting around may have more resources available for essential activities such as finding food, hunting, and reproducing.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Negroni records this scene of a dead puma displayed as a hunting trophy in Santa Cruz, a province in Argentine Patagonia.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
After landing on a machine, it will try to move laterally to the next, hunting for data, passwords or other systems to take over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
He isn’t wearing Balenciaga Crocs, but the Realtree hunting collaboration ones that cost $60.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
We went along the shore, hunting for a good place to go out on the sea.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
