Synonyms for go after
go af·ter

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1. go after

   Anything that comes after or goes after another, either in space or in time, is said to follow it. A servant follows or attends his master; a victorious general may follow the retiring enemy merely to watch and hold him in check; he chases or pursues with intent to overtake and attack; the chase is closer and hotter than the pursuit. (Compare synonyms for HUNT.) One event may follow another either with or without special connection; if it ensues, there is some orderly connection; as, the ensuing year; if it results from another, there is some relation of effect, consequence, or inference. A clerk observes his employer's directions. A child obeys his parent's commands, follows or copies his example, imitates his speech and manners. The compositor follows copy; the incoming succeeds the outgoing official.

   Synonyms:
   accompany, attend, chase, come after, copy, ensue, follow, heed, imitate, obey, observe, practise, pursue, result, succeed

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1. chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, trackverb

   go after with the intent to catch

   "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"

   Synonyms:
   give chase, quest for, traverse, pass over, chase after, cut through, cover, shack, chamfer, mark, get over, chase, drop back, cut across, tail, furrow, get across, trail, train, bob, get behind, label, dog, track, pursue, cross, tag, quest after, drag, dock, hang back, drop behind

2. quest for, go after, quest after, pursueverb

   go in search of or hunt for

   "pursue a hobby"

   Synonyms:
   give chase, act on, prosecute, chase after, follow up on, quest for, chase, dog, tail, engage, follow, trail, quest after, track, pursue, tag

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1. Mark Meadows:

   This is not about me holding me in contempt — it’s not even about making the Capitol safe, or we see that by some of the selective leaks that are going on right now, this is about Donald Trump and about actually going after him once again, continuing to go after Donald Trump.

2. Michael Feroli:

   I'd like to say it's sustainable but I don't think it is, to sustain 280,000-type numbers month after month, you'd need really strong GDP growth and that just doesn't seem like that's in the cards right now.

3. Manana Tsatieva:

   We wanted to build a bright future in Germany, to have a safer life and to be together again as a family.'' It wasn't to be.Shortly after arriving in Germany in 2016, Manana Tsatieva learned that Zelimkhan Khangoshvili had another wife in Ukraine who was pregnant. Manana Tsatieva and Zelimkhan Khangoshvili -- who had been married for two decades -- split and had minimal contact from that point on. Hopes dashedKhangoshvili's life in Germany initially seemed safer, but it was no less difficult : his asylum applications were rejected three times. Now his murder, and the emerging evidence that alleges links to Russian security services, have prompted many to ask why the German government has been uncharacteristically quiet on the matter.Since the killing, no German authorities have contacted Khangoshvili's family to.

4. Rick Wilson:

   To put the referenced e-mail correspondence into context, the dispute surrounding Havana Club rum has been going on for more than 20 years, then-Gov. Bush was responding to inquiries by Mr. Rodriguez and Bacardi to determine what was taking so long in what Bacardi believed to be rather routine measures after the company purchased the legitimate global rights to the Havana Club trademark from the creators and original owners, Jose Arechabala S.A. and the Arechabala family.

5. Vincent Sheheen:

   I think that real leadership occurs when something's not popular and taking the flag down after the massacres was popular. Before the massacres it was unpopular, leaders should be in front, not following.