go after

1. Pursue, try to get, as in The officer went after the burglar; or Ed was going after a new job with a vengeance. [Mid-1400s]

Example Sentences

There are always reporters there ready in place to go after the story that everybody’s interested in.

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In a new surge of medical disinformation and misinformation, RFK Jr. goes after Tylenol and circumcision.

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“That, I think, is what they’re going after. But it’s essentially a game over for the entire industry if this actually goes into effect.”

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I spoke to a woman at a conference whose aunt had placed Post-it notes on all her valuable items noting what she had paid for each and to whom it should go after she died.

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"He said that bear ran so close to him, but it was going after somebody else," she said, adding that "he even felt its fur".

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