seeking
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /siːkɪŋ/
seeking (plural seekings)
- The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
- 1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)
- […] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]
- 1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)
seeking (not comparable)
- (in combination) That seeks something specified.
- Russian: поисковый
- present participle of seek#English|seek
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
- While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,
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