seeker
a person or thing that seeks.
Rocketry.
a device in a missile that locates a target by sensing some characteristic of the target, as heat emission.
a missile equipped with such a device.
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How to use seeker in a sentence
I also trawl the websites of private hospitals and pharmacies that offer the vaccine, wasting endless hours as they crash from the load of thousands of other vaccine seekers.
At the Kino Border Initiative in Nogales, Sonara, Stephanie learned about the program that matches asylum seekers with American host families.
A Maryland couple opened their home to a Honduran mother and son. They ended up sharing more than space. | Stephanie García | January 30, 2021 | Washington PostThat’s why I like to check in with former advice seekers to see how they’ve overcome their obstacles, faced their fears and moved on to better things.
The covid-era workplace: Hard questions, no easy answers | Karla Miller | December 17, 2020 | Washington PostIn the Florida Keys, lobster seekers frequently find spider crabs under rock ledges and reefs.
14 wild edibles you can pull right out of the ocean | By Bob McNally/Field & Stream | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAlso harshly affected are workers in the informal sector, migrant workers, refugees and asylum seekers.
Why Human Rights Should Guide Responses To The Global Pandemic | LGBTQ-Editor | October 7, 2020 | No Straight News
What Andra and her employees experienced is how it should be for every employer—and every job seeker.
Full Text of President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union Address | | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was an adventurer and thrill seeker, but also an ardent radical socialist.
This Week’s Hot Reads: Sept. 30, 2013 | Thomas Flynn, Jimmy So | September 30, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCooper has distanced herself from the widely panned 2007 movie adaptation, The seeker.
But Booker is no longer just a spiritual seeker looking for community in unusual places.
He left the Navy four years ago, said Quigley, who described her brother as “an adventure seeker.”
He is quite a politician, though he has never been an office-seeker or an office-holder.
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot | William Gannaway BrownlowThe experiments which the indefatigable seeker had undertaken on atmospheric electricity interested her as much as they did him.
Urania | Camille FlammarionThe incident of the photographic seeker before the Statue of Liberty upset me.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinWe are all alike and yet all different; each of us is a wanderer, a brooder, a seeker.
The New Society | Walther RathenauHe is usually regarded as a bona fide seeker for work, and food is readily given him for the asking.
Tramping on Life | Harry Kemp
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