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

“Hogg said he was going to only go after the older people who were not doing their job, weren’t keeping up,” he told Salon in an interview, citing other progressive targets such as Reps.

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This means, Swinney said, more people could go after work "when it fits with their lives".

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Smith-Schuster fell to a knee but immediately popped up and went after Branch.

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“We’re going after all these great things, only to like, shoot ourselves in the foot,” said Denise Villalobos, a Republican state representative for Texas’ 34th district, which covers parts of Corpus Christi.

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I wrote this white paper questioning the AAA rating of a company called MBIA, and they went after me very aggressively.

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