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pursuit
  1. The act of pursuing.
  2. A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
  3. (cycling) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
  4. (law, obsolete) prosecution
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  6. Examples:
    1. “I avoided being detected during the pursuit by carefully positioning myself behind solid and large obstacles such as mailboxes.”
      “Chris Gardner would dedicate most of his early life to the pursuit of happiness.”
      “Wakeboarding was a recreational pursuit he liked to indulge in on weekends.”
pursuance
  1. A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
  2. A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
  3. The state of being pursuant; consequence.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Cooperation between the Bulgarian and Belgian interior ministries will be in pursuance to a bilateral agreement between the two authorities.”
      “The fact that all the acts were performed in pursuance of an antecedent plan, and death ensued from the execution of that plan, appeared to be crucial to the decision of the Privy Council.”
      “I find that the decision is in accordance with the law and is in pursuance of the legitimate aim of immigration control.”
pursuer
  1. One who pursues.
  2. (Scotland, law) The party who initiates a lawsuit; a plaintiff.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He realised now that he would never lose such a determined pursuer in these corridors.”
      “Although he turned off into St Denys Road to elude his pursuer, he was hit from behind by a bottle and rugby-tackled to the ground.”
      “On the contrary, it affirmed the principle that the onus of proving causation lies on the pursuer or plaintiff.”
pursuiter
  1. A person (especially a cyclist) who takes part in a pursuit race
pursuite
  1. Obsolete form of pursuit.
pursual
  1. The act of pursuit.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The pursual mode was initially abandoned by us in favor of entropy-discriminate mode.”
      “If he will not learn them and hath his wits he shall pay a life-ring-garth, and the bishop shall settle as to the pursual who shall have it.”
      “The approach taken by Doyle is to simply equate one strategy as the pursual of market share and another as its non-pursual.”
pursuee
  1. One who is pursued.
pursuing
pursuiters
  1. plural of pursuiter
pursuances
pursuites
  1. plural of pursuite
pursuings
pursuers
  1. plural of pursuer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Let us dress our ship as befits a brigand who shows her heels to the pursuers.”
      “These were the exact feelings of Joseph Smith who quickly eluded his pursuers.”
      “His pursuers tracked him down with a bloodhound but the fugitive managed to kill the hound with an arrow and make good his escape.”
pursuits
  1. plural of pursuit
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Information on activities and pursuits available to children in the area will be provided.”
      “These pursuits require mental acuteness, intellectual agility and detailed analysis.”
      “Aesthetic pursuits, sporty activity and creative pastimes are rejuvenating.”
pursuals
pursuees
  1. plural of pursuee
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