pursued

[pur·sue]

Followed with enmity as if to harm

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Noun
a person who is being chased; "the film jumped back and forth from the pursuer to the pursued"

Adjective
followed with enmity as if to harm; "running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes"


imp. & p. p.
of Pursue


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Usage Examples

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

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Other Usage Examples

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

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