hunt up

verb

1. (tr) to search for, esp successfully

   I couldn't hunt up a copy of it anywhere

2. (intr) (of a bell) to be rung progressively earlier during a set of changes

Example Sentences

Hunt up for market share wins in its modal business.

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But, I realize, if God is ready to take Reverend Hunt up to heaven, it is not my business to try to stop Him.

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“Well, come on. We got some more fence cutters to hunt up!”

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In Vermont, the state is planning to issue 100 permits for the October hunt, up from 55 last year and zero in 2019.

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And yet the press, which both creates and feeds off public interest in these things, rose early, as it does every year, to note the nominations as they were announced and hunt up the nominees for reactions and think about what it has to say about Life and Art and Hollywood.

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