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PURSUING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit

Example:

listened for the hounds' pursuing bark

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

following (going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb pursue

Credits

 Context examples: 

Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It applies to clinicians who are pursuing basic science careers; clinicians who are pursuing careers in patient-oriented research; and to individuals pursuing careers in the prevention, control and population sciences.

(Career Transition Award, NCI Thesaurus)

They, too, were pursuing the party with the cart.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You must have known, that while you were enjoying yourself in Devonshire pursuing fresh schemes, always gay, always happy, she was reduced to the extremest indigence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Each day, pursuing him and crying defiance at him, the lesson of the previous night was erased, and that night would have to be learned over again, to be as immediately forgotten.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A question about whether an individual limits or was limited in pursuing their hobbies or leisure time activities.

(Limited in Pursuing Hobbies or Leisure Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

I had lived long in Holland, pursuing my studies at Leyden, and I spoke Dutch well.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Ruth's two girl-cousins were visiting her from San Rafael, and Mrs. Morse, under pretext of entertaining them, was pursuing her plan of surrounding Ruth with young people.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then all of a sudden there was a tremendous explosion of oaths and other noises—the chair and table went over in a lump, a clash of steel followed, and then a cry of pain, and the next instant I saw Black Dog in full flight, and the captain hotly pursuing, both with drawn cutlasses, and the former streaming blood from the left shoulder.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Individuals with a promotion focus are concerned with pursuing positive outcomes, for example engaging in healthy behaviours, while those with a prevention focus will seek to prevent negative consequences, for example by avoiding unhealthy behaviours.

(People with Positive Attitude More Likely to Eat Healthily, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)