Next and Pursuing

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Next adjective - Being the one that comes immediately after another.

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Pursuing and next are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pursuing" instead an adjective "Next".

Pursuing adjective - Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit.

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Next and pursuing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Next" instead an adjective "Pursuing".

Nearby Words: pursue, pursuance, pursued, pursuer

Fires of Azeroth ends with this trope actually happening, but the first two books invoke but then subvert it, ending with Morgaine and Vanye pursuing Roh through gates into the next world instead.

Source: Literature / Morgaine Cycle
But in the next book he's always back at it again, jealously pursuing and competing with the Investigators, until finally being Put on a Bus (and maybe having a HeelFace Turn) in Headless Horse.

Source: Literature / The Three Investigators
When Eddie Guerrero split from Chyna, a segment was filmed where he flirted with The Kat, implying that he'd be pursuing her next.

Source: Wrestling / Stacy Carter

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