seek an answer

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To seek an answer, she developed a set of “localizer tasks,” administered in an fMRI machine.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

That makes Liberia an excellent place to seek an answer to one of the most vexing questions in development economics.

From Economist • Jun. 29, 2017

While in the past, this question was in the realm of philosophy or science fiction, today we have the means to seek an answer through scientific inquiry.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

But I will doggedly seek an answer for you.

From Slate • Mar. 1, 2012

Now, it is impossible that the heat of the stove should remove any moisture from the air; we must therefore seek an answer to the question, What is dry air?

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various