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in pursuit

in pursuit prepositional phrase: pursuing or chasing (someone or something).

Prepositional phrase

  1. pursuing or chasing (someone or something)

Questions about in pursuit

What does in pursuit mean?
In pursuit means pursuing or chasing (someone or something).
What part of speech is in pursuit?
In pursuit is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in pursuit in the dictionary

  1. in propria persona
  2. in protest
  3. in public
  4. in pup
  5. in puris naturalibus
  6. in pursuit
  7. in quantity
  8. in question
  9. in quick sticks
  10. in quick succession
  11. in rag order

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