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: the assigning of students to a curricular track
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: the standard distance between adjacent characters (as in composed text) : letterspacing compare kerning
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took a class in the tracking of game that the hunters' association offers
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Aglaé Ventures, the firm of LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, joined a $298 million Series B round for Function Health, which provides regular lab testing for health tracking and early disease detection.
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Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
Sensors linked to the laser include thermal imagers, high-speed steering mirrors, and precision tracking equipment designed to keep the beam locked on targets despite ship motion and environmental conditions.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
Rasmussen's daily tracking poll surveys 300 likely voters per night, then reports the results on a five-day rolling average basis, the pollster says.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Defensively, Walsh guarded Mitchell — a Celtics killer in many of the teams’ previous matchups — for 43 partial possessions, per NBA player tracking.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
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Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2025
Sensors linked to the laser include thermal imagers, high-speed steering mirrors, and precision tracking equipment designed to keep the beam locked on targets despite ship motion and environmental conditions.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
Rasmussen's daily tracking poll surveys 300 likely voters per night, then reports the results on a five-day rolling average basis, the pollster says.
—Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025
Defensively, Walsh guarded Mitchell — a Celtics killer in many of the teams’ previous matchups — for 43 partial possessions, per NBA player tracking.
—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
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“Tracking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tracking. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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