What does Sought mean?
Definitions for Sought
sɔtsought
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Sought.
Princeton's WordNet
soughtadjective
that is looked for
"the long sought relatives"
sought, sought-after(a)adjective
being searched for
"the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Soughtthe preterite and participle pass. of seek.
I am sought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me not. Isa. lxv. 1.
The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein. Psal. cxi. 2.
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sought
Sought is the past tense and past participle of the verb "seek." It refers to something that was actively tried to be found, obtained, or achieved. It suggests a deliberate search or pursuit of something desired or needed.
Webster Dictionary
Sought
of Seek
Sought
imp. & p. p. of Seek
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sought
sawt, pa.t. and pa.p. of seek.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Sought' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1901
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Anagrams for Sought »
oughts
toughs
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Sought in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Sought in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Sought in a Sentence
For most of my life, it has been my lifeline, a place where I found peace and healing time and time again, it's where I felt closest to my mother and sought solace after she died, and where I knew I had found a soulmate in my wife. And it’s why so much of my work is based there.
Five years ago the FBI informed me it had concerns that an administrative member of my California staff was potentially being sought out by the Chinese government to provide information, he was not a mole or a spy, but someone who a foreign intelligence service thought it could recruit.
Related ImageExpand / ContractSouth Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says her state doesn't need unions. ( AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)( The Associated Press) Right-to-work laws mean workers at unionized plants do not have to join the labor organization. Haley, whose efforts have brought major investments from companies including Continental Tire and Boeing, recently went toe-to toe with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which sought to organize 3,000 workers at an aircraft plant she helped lure in 2011 with a $ 450 million package of tax incentives. The union suspended its effort to organize the Boeing plant after a rocky start. Haley, who said at her January state of the union address that South Carolina has an international reputation for being a state that does n’t want unions, because we don’t need unions, we have been successful in attracting some of the world’s top corporate citizens and paving the way for expansion of the businesses we already have because our right-to-work law strengthens the direct relationship our employers have with employees, Haley said. Our best advice to The UAW is to ask the IAM about how South Carolina workers view unions.
Mr. Spears was forced to concede in his August 12,2021 ‘ First Response ’ to Britney Spears’s Petition to remove him that he must depart – and his departure is now inexorable, as we wrote in our new filing with the Court, however, the quid pro quopreconditions that Mr. Spears’s sought in his August 12, 2021 court filing are inappropriate and unacceptable.
Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
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