sought after

Meaning of sought after in English
 
sought after
adjective
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wanted by many people and usually of high quality or rare:
[ before noun ] At the age of 17 she is already one of Hollywood's most sought-after actresses.
Synonyms
desirable (WANTED)desired
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Liked, or not liked, by many people
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(Definition of sought after from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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sought-after
adjective
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wanted or desired by many people:
He was one the most sought-after speakers at political rallies.
(Definition of sought after from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of sought after
sought after
This will then allow me to show that legal conventions are plans that organize such activities and enable participants to achieve the sought-after outcomes.
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This classification provides a semantic constraint on the sought-after answer.
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This pins down the sought-after extremal trajectory uniquely.
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The clean and the proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into the banished, fascination into shame.
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In analogy, therefore, we have chosen here to refer to our sought-after optimal path in the temperature- density plane as the ' ignition brachystochrone '.
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The life of the inhabitants is changing in unpredictable ways and is enriched by both sought-after and chance information.
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Moreover, they were among the most detailed, well-drawn maps generally available, and were sometimes eagerly sought-after.
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This, in turn, will engender the sought-after reliance.
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For convenience, the vertex of the above thermal stability curve has been chosen as the target point (' end ' point) of our sought-after optimal trajectory.
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As with all research, the method must be congruent with the sought-after results.
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It is not only the effect, but the goal: war is at once the cause of and the means to a sought-after effect and end, the segmentation of primitive society.
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The problematic, the unstable, and the contingent of such a sought-after but ever-doubted unity of subject and object, of construction and reflection, had been present from the very beginning.
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These accumulators are much sought-after for their operational reliability in critical conditions, which makes it difficult to introduce alternative products.
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That is why the car is just about the most successful and sought-after of all modern inventions.
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A driving instructor or driving examiner is subject to all kinds of strain, and his is not the most sought-after occupation.
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