“seek” without preposition sounds weird

I am writing the following sentence (I made it shorter for this question):

To achieve a better bound, we seek graphs with the following property.

I read that using the phrase “seek for” is not recommended or even incorrect. Is my sentence OK?

Thank you

Answer

Your sentence is OK.

Seek takes a direct object.

Seek for is understandable, but I don’t think a native speaker would ever say it.

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Source : Link , Question Author : Ella Sharakanski , Answer Author : Colin Fine

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