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seek out

British  

verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to search hard for and find a specific person or thing

    she sought out her friend from amongst the crowd

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Which is why you have to seek out others’ thinking to understand the weird, even what you think is grotesque.

From The Wall Street Journal

That isolation is what convinced Rachel, then in her late 20s, to seek out a mums' group in her area of Virginia, USA.

From BBC

When they detect danger, they process fragments of abnormal proteins and present them as antigens to T cells, which then seek out and destroy diseased or cancerous cells.

From Science Daily

When charged with becoming chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Nahla seeks out Caleb, a rogue technical genius, offering the chance of an education and the potential of finding his mom once again.

From Los Angeles Times

These include emotional response, mood regulation, social bonding, physical movement such as dancing, and the desire to seek out or collect new musical experiences.

From Science Daily