pursuer

Example Sentences

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As the physician Peter Lipson, an assiduous pursuer of bogus medical claims, observed back in 2009, “DSHEA, as it was written and as it was intended, facilitates the legal marketing of quackery.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025

And was actually 0.125secs faster than Verstappen, his closest pursuer, in the final sector.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

His closest pursuer was Andrew Novak, who was 5 under through nine holes.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

“While a just cause wins its champion wide support, an unjust one condemns its pursuer to be an outcast,” the report concludes.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Kabbadi, a game similar to tag, involves the pursuer repeatedly chanting the word kabbadi in an uninterrupted stream without a breath while trying to tag someone.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin