pleasure-seeking
Example Sentences
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The NAc helps govern motivation, pleasure-seeking behaviors, and impulse control.
From Science Daily • Dec. 8, 2025
I always found something hopeful about Bourbon Street; if not the look or sound or smell of its pleasure-seeking, then the humanity of this common pursuit.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2025
Most of us aren't these people, but likely wouldn't want anyone to become cruel because of our own pleasure-seeking behaviour either.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024
According to scientists, it is all about our brains' pleasure-seeking tendencies.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2024
This quaint admixture of scientific research, pleasure-seeking, and superstitious credulity, blended with intellectual enquiry, affords a curious picture of the domestic and professional habits of a physician of the seventeenth century.
From Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations by Madders, S. S.
