pursuit
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The visitors closed the second day on 36-3 in pursuit of 254, leaving Ben Stokes' side seven wickets from victory.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
AkzoNobel shares were down 19% after Nippon Paint and Sherwin-Williams ended their pursuit of the company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
In the same way that food media has pivoted toward a pursuit of the best, so has the word foodie itself.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
The former World No. 1 is still in pursuit of her first major championship.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
The central task of such an epistemology is not to explain why we have been successful in our pursuit of scientific knowledge; there is no good answer to that question.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing pursuit
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Latin Love, Vol III: seguire
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