SEEKS Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

seeks

verb

present tense third-person singular of seek

as in pursues

to go in search of Henry Hudson was set adrift by mutinous crewmen while seeking the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean

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as in requests

to make a request for came seeking financial advice

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as in tries

to make an effort to do seek to find the best solution

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Recent Examples of seeks The guideline seeks to avoid clubs inflating their bottom lines through what the governing body terms ‘player exchange transactions’. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 The three-time Daytona 500 winner also seeks his first win in the summer race. — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026 One of his lines of research seeks to distill our familiar world from the disorienting Hilbert space that encapsulates all the ways the universe could possibly be. — Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has bestowed one of Ukraine’s top state honors on SpaceX owner Elon Musk as Kyiv seeks to expand use of the company’s Starlink ‌terminals, which provide battlefield communications for Ukrainian forces. — Reuters, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 The company added that a user must make a request that specifically seeks information from Messages before ChatGPT will access them. — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Trump signed in March that seeks to give the agency a say over when and how ballots are mailed and which ballots are returned to local election officials. — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 An amendment referred to the ballot by lawmakers seeks to sidestep a court ruling that struck down a previous Democratic redistricting plan in 2022. — David A. Lieb, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026 This game won’t either, especially as Detroit seeks to return to the playoffs. — Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for seeks

Verb

This exemplifies a reactive legal framework that pursues accountability in hindsight rather than enforcing prevention at the front end.

— Brittany Berlin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026
When a Ukrainian pickup truck carrying soldiers and equipment drives past, the drone detects it acoustically, takes off, and pursues it.

— Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of pursues

Verb

Proton Mail, acting as a proxy, requests the image and caches it on its own servers.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026
The person asked for gas money and Bitcoin, requests the family found suspicious because Goods doesn't drive and didn't have a car in Las Vegas.

— Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of requests

Verb

Linney’s Guardian tries to draw out some resentment from her new candidate, but John expresses (or feigns) sympathy for Hal, who was betrayed by his father figure Sinestro, an experience John likens to his own complicated upbringing.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
However, if a person tries to inject the drug, naloxone blocks buprenorphine’s opioid effects, triggering withdrawal in a person with opioid dependence.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of tries

Verb

The Broadway production takes that same approach and translates it thrillingly to the stage through an entirely original ghost story that requires no knowledge of anything that’s come before it.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
Following a 1990 accident that fractured his spine, Billesdon lives with a paralyzed colon and bladder that requires workplace accommodations and causes severe side effects from medication.

— Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of requires

Verb

This is all while Venus in Libra strives for justice, balance, cooperation and relationships that feel mutually considerate.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 24 Aug. 2026
Chesney called Martin an unbelievable leader and said that his energy will give people a window into what his program strives to look like.

— Connor Dullinger, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of strives

Verb

Why private credit may avoid a ‘crisis-apocalypse’ Blackstone’s scale attracts outsized scrutiny, and investors’ attempts to pull money from its private credit funds earlier this year made headline news.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
In 1994, Detective Joanne Miller, played by Shailene Woodley, attempts to track Kaczynski down as his bombing spree rages.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026