hunted

Example Sentences

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Staff who previously hunted for iconoclastic founders with promising startups were sent to find AI data-center sites, the energy needed to power them and the chips to run them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

After being hunted to extinction a century ago, gray wolves are continuing their remarkable comeback story in California, with state wildlife officials reporting a modern record number of the apex predators.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

Flying reptiles known as pterosaurs also hunted fish along the river system.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2026

Parker hunted for stocks that have correlations of 0.2 or lower to his AI basket—1 is perfectly correlated—and a gain of at least 10% in the past six months.

From Barron's • May 5, 2026

I was not at all sure Mike's rods would come from Scotland in time, so we hunted a tackle store and finally bought a rod for Bill up-stairs over a drygoods store.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway