pursuer
AmericanEtymology
Origin of pursuer
Explanation
A pursuer is someone who is chasing someone or something. You could be a pursuer of truth and beauty, or perhaps a pursuer of the kid who took your lunch money. To pursue is to chase something, like a dog pursuing a squirrel. In that situation, the dog is a pursuer. Someone who’s trying to ask someone else out on a date is a pursuer. When the police are on a manhunt for a criminal, the police are pursuers. You could also say someone is a pursuer of a goal, like a pursuer of a medical degree. All pursuers want something and they're going after it.
Example Sentences
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Team-mate George Russell, his closest pursuer in the title race, starts from pole after a dominant performance.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
As the physician Peter Lipson, an assiduous pursuer of bogus medical claims, observed back in 2009, “DSHEA, as it was written and as it was intended, facilitates the legal marketing of quackery.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
It features scenes of the rapper running from a pursuer in a Pinocchio mask - a symbol fans interpreted as "lies" following Drake around.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
His closest pursuer was Andrew Novak, who was 5 under through nine holes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
The tree was really the nymph, Lotis, who fleeing from a pursuer had taken refuge in this form.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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