noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
spiritual
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The spiritual quest is to discover order in our consciousness.
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We should encourage the president in his spiritual quest .
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The mental powers, which made that spiritual quest possible, were the fount of human uniqueness - not a cosmic position.
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Harcourt-Reilly takes her out of her conventional life, and leads her towards a spiritual quest and eventual martyrdom.
■ VERB
become
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Rose, too, in her quest for a dress became money-conscious.
begin
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Literally just as filming began the quest ended with Vivien Leigh.
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Thoreau begins his quest with a retreat from society.
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But before we begin on our quest , we need something to call them in the interim.
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It turned out that they had barely begun their quest before disaster struck.
continue
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Wigg, in that conversation with me, was seeking my approval to continue his parliamentary quest for information.
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This is our continuing quest , and in this book we describe what we have learned.
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Hopefully, the rich blend of intellects and backgrounds and divergent objectives will continue the quest .
embark
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Sometimes they embarked on quests and did not return.
find
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She talked of quests , of finding this absurd religious character, but he was unsure of her conviction.
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My life is one long quest to find the perfect partner but I always look in the wrong places.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a spiritual quest
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At their roots, both quests originated out of human inquisitiveness.
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Both are on a quest that could change the way politics is done.
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From the same lands came the quest for the Grail that revivified the spirituality of the twelfth century.
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However I was wrong: the quest for fusion is perhaps an example of these problems.
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She loves her life and is immersed in the quest for knowledge for knowledge's sake.
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The content it attaches to physical reality makes the natural world autonomous; its quest is to determine what is.