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The phrase "sought the same thing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing individuals or groups who are pursuing a common goal or desire. Example: "Despite their differences, both parties sought the same thing: a peaceful resolution to the conflict."
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Johnson, the American women's coach, sought the same thing from Minnesota high school teams.
Almost 20 years before Virginia Woolf published "A Room of One's Own," the playwright Rachel Crothers sought the same thing for her heroine in her 1910 drama "A Man's World".
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She must have been seeking the same thing he was.
"We seek the same thing," Mr. Lim said.
We were seeking the same thing: no-strings-attached sex.
Don't we all seek the same thing?
They seek the same thing we all want: something better.
Hundreds of thousands seek the same thing each year, unsuccessfully.
The post-dinner dance floor would have been the Guardian's worst nightmare". History and politics are always closely entwined; one discipline seeks plausible narratives in the past while the other seeks the same thing in the present.
Both groups were seeking the same thing and were pretty much the same people — people of the land trying to make a way for their families in forbidding and alien places.
Mr. Herzog is even granted a brief interview with the Dalai Lama, who speaks in soothing generalities about how each of us is the center of the universe and how all religions seek the same thing.
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