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seek out

Verb

Meaning

look for a specific person or thing

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It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used. Sun Tzu

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul. Maximus the Confessor

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. Vladimir Lenin

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. Og Mandino

People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail. Indonesian Proverb

The rich never have to seek out their relatives. Italian Proverb

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