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seek out

verb
  1. To try to locate; to search for. (transitive)
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“There is only one thing we can do,” returned the Lion, “and that is to go to the land of the Winkies, seek out the Wicked Witch, and destroy her.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 75 · B2
“I do not offer you a million, because I have it not; but I will give you a hundred crowns if, the first time you go to Marseilles, you will seek out a young girl named Mercédès, at the Catalans, and give her two lines from me.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 80 · C1

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