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in search of
Idioms and Phrases
Also, in quest of . Looking for, seeking, as in They went to California in search of gold , or I went to the library in quest of a quiet place to read . The first term dates from the mid-1400s, the second from the second half of the 1500s.Example Sentences
My own first summer job as a kid in search of after-school pocket money was picking cigar tobacco on a Connecticut farm just north of Hartford.
But for this new version of May 鈥 who, in search of better health after two major elbow surgeries, has dialed back on his fastball velocity and drastically dropped the arm angle of his already somewhat side-arm delivery 鈥 even a couple of misplaced mistakes can spell trouble.
That spring, Bates had watched a relationship blossom between Pages, a then 23-year-old prospect who had bounced back miraculously fast from a labrum surgery the previous season, and Hern谩ndez, an All-Star veteran who had signed with the club that winter at age 31 in search of a bounce-back performance.
Police spent more than an hour going from room to room on the campus in search of a suspect or additional victims, but did not find anyone, authorities said.
But, authorities allege, he was really in search of unattended purses and wallets belonging to unsuspecting staff members.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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