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pursue

[per-soo] / pərˈsu /






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Pursue a “California First” agenda, to borrow a phrase.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Appeared in the December 18, 2025, print edition as 'Irenic Pushes Integer to Pursue Sale'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The counsel is simple: Pursue a bipartisan inquiry, follow the facts, don’t attempt to interfere with ongoing investigations and operate in good faith.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2023

Pursue calming activities: Take a walk, bake, draw, get lost in nature.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2022

Pursue your claim by manly daring; or let us bury our feuds, as was proposed, by the intermarriage of our children.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William




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