quest
noun
a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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In a sense, Hart is questing after a national pardon, but he is too proud and too stiff-necked to ask for it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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