seeker
Americannoun
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a person or thing that seeks.
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Rocketry.
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a device in a missile that locates a target by sensing some characteristic of the target, as heat emission.
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a missile equipped with such a device.
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Etymology
Origin of seeker
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at seek, -er 1
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One asylum seeker sprinted into the courthouse, hours after her early morning hearing appointment in early June, her flip flops barely holding together as she frantically ran up and down the hallway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
That it hasn’t seems ironic, given that the Christian ideal of Jesus is in both word and deed a seeker of justice.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
One job seeker put it bluntly: “I became invisible when I turned 60.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
“They’re not your agent. As the job seeker, you find the exact job that you want to apply to and ask for a referral for that.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
That I was no glory seeker was obvious to her, and that I had to exhaust every possibility before giving in was also clear.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Hannah Henderson, who runs a dog-friendly coffee shop in Southampton, says she was recently driving with her daughter when they passed a hotel that houses asylum seekers.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The court was told the three defendants knew each other and were living at Home Office-approved hotel accommodation for asylum seekers in Lower Beeding, near Horsham, West Sussex.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The share of job seekers out of work for six months or longer is hovering near highest level in five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Abernathy’s plight is familiar to many job seekers, especially younger ones who’ve entered the labor force in the past few years.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
More than 90 percent of the school’s nine hundred students were black or from an ethnic minority; a fifth of them were the children of immigrants or asylum seekers.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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