chasing
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When Rees hears of the mobile-home park being relocated, she thinks of the landlord who gets to retire with a windfall after chasing rent for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Zinger expressed the same sentiment in a Substack post last week, writing that Google’s AI strategy is solidifying around “prosaic matters” such as coding and search, instead of DeepMind’s original vision of chasing AGI.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman fell down the visiting dugout stairs while chasing a foul ball in the eighth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Studies show that male investors trade more than women, chasing higher returns, but women actually get higher returns," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
“You did this same thing when that clown was chasing us away from the carnival!”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
They'd brought fine armor up from the Twins, shining silver plate with enameled blue chasings.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
One knight wore an intricate suit of white enameled scales, brilliant as a field of new-fallen snow, with silver chasings and clasps that glittered in the sun.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
If you had heard your poor uncle relate, as I have done, all his chasings and runnings away, in the war times, child, you would understand these things better.
From Jack Tier by James Fenimore Cooper
Many, many lockets I made of cunning workmanship and design, of curious chasings and most marvelous wrought intertwinings, yet none suited my lord.
From The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV by C. M. (Charles Mark) Relyea
The milk was in a battered pewter pitcher, but the dish that held the corn bread was of heavy silver, with intricate chasings about the rim.
From Mr. Opp by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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