as in pursuit
the act of going after or in the tracks of another
took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers
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as in chasing
to go after or on the track of
predators stealthily tracking their prey
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as in traversing
to make one's way through, across, or over
once upon a time, millions of buffalo tracked the wide open plains
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Recent Examples of tracking
Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Kohn says the city of Philadelphia needs a better system for tracking vehicles once they are towed.
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Liz Crawford,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Lauren Villagran,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Separate acquisition and tracking pipelines allow the system to detect targets earlier while maintaining tracking of small, fast-moving or maneuvering objects.
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Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
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Noun
This allows criminals to impersonate carriers, intercept deliveries, and disable GPS tracking.
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Steve Weisman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2026
Kohn says the city of Philadelphia needs a better system for tracking vehicles once they are towed.
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Liz Crawford,
CBS News,
30 June 2026
Verb
As the detentions accelerated, United We Dream began tracking them.
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Lauren Villagran,
Miami Herald,
2 July 2026
Separate acquisition and tracking pipelines allow the system to detect targets earlier while maintaining tracking of small, fast-moving or maneuvering objects.
—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
2 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracking
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Yet The Bear has always been equally attuned to the tension at the heart of that pursuit.
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The pursuit lasted around five minutes before the suspect successfully evaded officers.
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The lightweight, toner-meets-serum formula also layers in niacinamide and adenosine for anyone chasing a bouncy, healthy glow.
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To survive and grow, more wealth management firms are chasing the surging ranks of the extremely wealthy and their more profitable accounts.
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From the Higgs to the Next Frontier The road to the FCC remains long, and Europe has been traversing it for years.
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Spending a year in California versus a month traversing small town America is a big difference.
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The funds would come from the Commodity Credit Corporation, a funding initiative through the federal agency, and would go toward tracing, surveying and trapping response programs for the next three years.
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Other response efforts have scaled up significantly since the start of the outbreak, officials said, but contact tracing continues to lag.
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While future modeling gigs are up in the air, the brothers said that their priority is pursuing music.
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Rather than pursuing one clear objective, Mars has the strength, energy and mental capacity to entertain several ideas, conversations and conflicts simultaneously when transiting this Air sign.
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Prosecutors said the children were then transported to El Paso after crossing the border.
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Hopes have risen that crude supplies will improve markedly with the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that’s key for the world’s oil transport, even though the number of ships crossing the strait is still limited.
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The data points to the following leading causes of death in the 1900s.
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Matt Miller, the ESPN NFL Draft analyst who shared last month on social media that his left arm was amputated following an automobile accident in southern Missouri, reportedly is being investigated by the state attorney general.
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Rip currents are formidable natural forces, but knowing how to react can significantly increase your chances of safely navigating these challenging waters.
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The characters are left navigating a world where people often turn on each other rather than challenge the systems around them.
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracking. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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