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([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13364977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13364977) [\#11111758](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11111758)) - It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a person who is **seeking** to recall a name:— Bien en prit à Jondrette, car en ce moment-là même M. Leblanc se retournait vers lui, et lui disait de cet air de quelqu'un qui **cherche** le nom: ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16367) - “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a merchant **seeking** fine pearls, Le royaume des cieux est encore semblable à un marchand qui **cherche** de belles perles. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 13:45) - On the other hand, Italy recalls that Alitalia has for more than ten years been fruitlessly **seeking** to obtain a new slot to London-Heathrow. A l'inverse, l'Italie rappelle qu'Alitalia **cherche** depuis 10 ans à obtenir un nouveau slot à Londres-Heathrow. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 781751) - Consequently, the Division has been actively **seeking** extrabudgetary funds to attend meetings on a case-by-case basis. Par conséquent, la Division **cherche** activement des fonds extrabudgétaires pour financer sa participation à des réunions au cas par cas. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15372907) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They are **seeking** a solution. Ils sont en train de chercher une solution. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nata23 and nata23 · checked, community translation · [\#1108275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1108275) [\#1108276](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1108276)) - He was **seeking** re-election. Il cherchait à se faire réélire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#802977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/802977) [\#11527081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11527081)) - You're just **seeking** to embellish all this! Tu cherches juste à enjoliver tout ça ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#943688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/943688) [\#943673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/943673)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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