pursuit of knowledge

collocation in English

meaningsofpursuitandknowledge

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pursuit
noun
uk
/pəˈsjuːt/us
/pɚˈsuːt/
an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are ...
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knowledge
noun
uk
/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofpursuitandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpursuit of knowledge

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However, after a point people realized that thepursuitofknowledgeitself brought pleasure and thus started to pursue it as an end in itself.
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It threatens to lead historians away from the criticalpursuitofknowledgeabout the past in the federal republic today.
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He understood administrative agencies as impartial forces inpursuitofknowledgefor the public good.
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For many, indeed most, such sight-seeing was indistinguishable from thepursuitofknowledgefor its own sake.
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What the artists arrived at instead became a culmination of the themes of thepursuitofknowledgeand the consequent loss and deferral.
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He is as committed to thepursuitofknowledgenow as he was nearly half a century ago.
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What it did do was to express, publicly and to a national audience, the virtues of those engaged in thepursuitofknowledgeunder difficulties.
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She imparted an enthusiasm for thepursuitofknowledge, reminded us of the importance of asking questions and championed the cause of high standards in the care of patients.
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This is revealed by their attitudes regarding what is the role of criticism and debate in science and hence about the role of controversy in thepursuitofknowledge.
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Younger adults, who have much to learn and relatively long futures, are motivated bypursuitofknowledge, even when this requires emotional well-being to be suppressed.
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Thepursuitofknowledgeis a hunt.
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Such schools would seek to stifle thepursuitofknowledgeabout other faiths and races.
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Thepursuitofknowledgewithout moral responsibility we all know to be highly dangerous.
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I suggest, therefore, thepursuitofknowledgeregarding human relations in industry.
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People think of it as consisting of men who are giving their lives to learning, research and thepursuitofknowledge.
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But probably even worse was the complete disinterest in the love of learning andpursuitofknowledgefor its own sake.
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There is pure or academic science, thepursuitofknowledgefor its own sake and with no foreseeable pay-off.
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Thepursuitofknowledgein this as in every other area is costly.
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Thepursuitofknowledgewill create the opportunities for improved living conditions.
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Thepursuitofknowledgein one field may give a fall-out of knowledge in totally unexpected quarters.
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