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chase down
verb as in ferret out
Example Sentences
With two days left to play there is still time for Australia to either bat out for a draw or chase down a record total to win the match.
But two years ago, City were able to chase down Arsenal, overcoming down an eight-point deficit at the start of April to win the Premier League trophy.
Mosquitoes have sex while flying in mid-air and the males rely on hearing to chase down a female, based on her attractive wingbeats.
Remember the 1975 film starring John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn called “Rooster Cogburn,” a one-eyed marshal hoping to chase down some bad guys?
It upsets Enright to be “watching twelve billion election dollars chase down a few thousand anxious minds in Pennsylvania.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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