pursuer

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Recent Examples of pursuer There are three wild-card spots available now, and the Padres hold the second of those, 3½ games ahead of their nearest pursuer. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Under the new Fish and Wildlife interim pintail harvest strategy, hunters in all four flyways are expected to have a three-pintail daily bag limit option for next year's 2026–'27 season based on this year's breeding population results.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In yet another sweeping tale of two opposites finding common ground (and a lot of chemistry), Robert Redford starred as a hunter opposite Meryl Streep's aristocrat in what is now Kenya in the 1930s.
    Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know Shortly after the storms struck, extreme-weather chaser Colin McCarthy shared satellite data on X that showed lightning spread across California.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Hayleigh Evans, who writes about extreme weather for The Republic, had been trying to set up a ride-along with a monsoon storm chaser all summer.
    Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Pursuer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pursuer. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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