Course
Course verb - To go after or on the track of.
Usage example: after coursing the conspirators for months, the federal agents closed in and made the arrests
Seek
Seek verb - To go in search of.
Common collocations
| fame | course fame | seek fame |
Both words in one sentence
- One of his experiments fails, threatening the Arling of Amaranthine; he decides that the best course of action is to send a posse of hundreds of Darkspawn led by his disciple Withered to seek help from the Grey Wardens, traditional enemies of the Darkspawn.
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Both actively seek out the heroes needed to protect their towns, and both Took a Level in Badass over the course of the film after the deaths of their respective spouses.
- Finally, throughout the course of Myst V: End of Ages, the player encounters the adult Yeesha and an old man named Esher, each of whom seek a mysterious tablet that only the player can obtain.
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