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as in outs
to drive or force out
chased the cat out of the garden
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as in pursues
to go after or on the track of
a dog that likes to chase cars
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as in rushes
to proceed or move quickly
they chased all over the place to find the missing child
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Recent Examples of chases
Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2025
The SoHo store is reopening at a time when holiday shoppers and tourists flock to the major shopping district for holiday gifts and party outfits — and as Target chases sales across the country during the critical shopping season.
—Melissa Repko, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
Meanwhile below, Frank chases Havlock through the dam’s tunnels on a snowmobile, the machine shrieking against concrete.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 5 Dec. 2025
This is all basically the setup for a picaresque odyssey in which Marty tirelessly chases his dream, shrugging off humiliations and hostilities, and eventually reconsidering Japan on his own terms.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
Like many bear aficionados, Propst chases bears from the time the animals emerge from their dens in March to the time hibernation begins in December.
—John McCoy, Outdoor Life, 12 Nov. 2025
One chases agility and research breakthroughs, the other aims for affordability and everyday utility.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
Genetics researcher Noé Dogbo, of the Institute of Research on Insect Biology in Tours, France, chases a butterfly during a hunting session in the Roja mountains near Curon Venosta, Bolzano, Italy.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
Los Angeles chases a repeat and a third championship since 2020 while Toronto arrives to the Fall Classic for the first time in 32 years.
—Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Max Goldbart, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
The study also found that in 2022, over 1,200 police chases took place in the Kansas City metro, resulting in over 150 crashes and 51 injuries.
—Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2026
With explosions, chases, narrow escapes and love, this film has everything to get your blood pumping as the clock strikes midnight.
—Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
The movies on this list are filled with physical clashes, car chases, and climactic character deaths.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Multiple council members enthusiastically supported an Oakland police watchdog body’s reversal of a policy that restricted high-speed police chases.
—Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2025
While chases were not banned, officers were required to consider dangers to the public following a string of fatal crashes, and there had to be reasonable suspicion the vehicle had already failed to obey a law.
—David Culver, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
Others believe the police pursuit policy needs to be reviewed after several innocent bystanders died following police chases earlier this year.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Dope doesn’t chase money, money chases dope.
—Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
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Mindy chases Emily down in massive platforms to confront her over this behavior.
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The show includes high-stakes undercover operations and night chases to secret agents, treasure maps, and vast sums of black-market money changing hands.
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Meanwhile, former volleyball star Tess craves reviving an on-hold career and pursues a job as a coach and even wades into the dating pool.—
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Members pay a monthly fee and serve as virtual co-producers on every project, and also are given a say on which projects the studio pursues.—
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But while many hiring professionals are concerned about applicants using AI in the process, one leader actually hunts for talent using the tech in application rounds.—
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That included a pair of hunters named Victor Travis and Raymond Burgess; on the show, Gein hunts them down and murders them with a chainsaw.—
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The woman who later identified herself as Good's partner rushes to the Honda Pilot.—
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Denver’s defense rushes the passer as well as any other team in the league.—
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Its quarries are concentrated in high-growth regions similar to MLM, where materials can’t be shipped in easily, giving the company local pricing power.—
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The construction of the Stones of Stenness may have required around fifty thousand hours of labor, as slabs were extracted from quarries several miles away, transported by wooden sleds or some other conveyance, and hauled upright.—
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If the battery overheats, the system acts like a launcher; sensors trigger a mechanism that ejects it from the vehicle.—
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As a supernova explosion ejects the outer layers of these stars, their stellar cores collapse.—
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The movie is a love letter to the 1960 French New Wave classic Breathless and tracks its filming.—
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Venezuela exported an average of 30,000 barrels of oil per day to Cuba during 2025, around 50% of the island’s needs, said Jorge Piñón, a senior research fellow at the Energy Center at the University of Texas who closely tracks oil shipments to the island.—
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Jackson scurries 14 yards up the middle for a first down.—
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The older dog is shown marching along, while the puppy scurries along, attempting to match its pace.—
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British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey.—
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Bring in your bird feeders overnight to avoid attracting coyote prey.—
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“Chases.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chases. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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