pursuer
Example Sentences
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Algeria led Group G with 22 points from nine matches, four ahead of their closest pursuers Uganda with just one match remaining -- booking their fifth appearance at the global showpiece next year.
From Barron's
That framework gives “Plainclothes” the feeling of an emotional chase film where pursuer and pursued are the same, stuck in a loop of possibility, torn about what being caught really means.
From Los Angeles Times
To view “Cloud” as mere commentary on 21st-century greed is to miss the existential nightmare that Yoshii’s armed, bloodthirsty and mostly hapless pursuers represent: regular folk driven to kill after a humiliating experience.
From Los Angeles Times
It features scenes of the rapper running from a pursuer in a Pinocchio mask - a symbol fans interpreted as "lies" following Drake around.
From BBC
In her glory years, she’d dart out of open doors or find the tiniest opening in a fence, and run down the street, looking back at her pursuers with laughing eyes.
From Los Angeles Times
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