as in chases
to go after or on the track of
suspecting infidelity, he hired a private detective to bird-dog his wife
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Combined, the handful of upside surprises is making for a stronger-than-expected domestic box office and a promising foundation for the second half of the year as the industry chases pre-pandemic levels.
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Kylian Mbappé of France chases the ball during their match against Iraq.
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Unlike solitary hunters such as leopards or tigers, wolves pursue prey that often outweighs them considerably, which means a lone wolf is, in practical terms, an ineffective one.
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The site of the battlefield was well known, and Legg says the team referenced old reports of possible remains from relic hunters.
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Most are left by parents or caregivers by accident, according to the organization Kids and Car Safety, which tracks such deaths.
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The LineShine machine, housed at the National Supercomputing Center in China’s tech hub of Shenzhen, replaced the American titleholder El Capitan in the latest biannual TOP500 ranking, which tracks the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
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Instead of chasing the latest fads, MRC pursues the boldest talent.
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Christy eventually pursues her dream of becoming a lawyer.
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China’s defense ecosystem follows a different set of market dynamics, customer segments, and interoperability frameworks, with exports and production shaped by trajectories that remain distinct from the replenishment and modernization cycle underway across NATO-standard supply chains.
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The Mad Widows follows a group of women who become friends through a bereavement class, only to discover that one of their late husbands might not actually be dead.
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If approved, an Iranian boat escorts the vessel through the territorial waters around Larak Island.
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The filmmaker escorts her back to Romania to try to find her birth mother.
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Service dogs that bark excessively must be taken out of the facility.
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In a nearly 10-minute long video, Pratt repeated social media posts that dogs on Skid Row are used to test drugs, are bred for drug money and are left in poor conditions by their unhoused owners, among other concerns about overcrowded, dirty shelters across the city.
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The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South.
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And about the obsession that courses through dozens of countries on the continent.
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“Bird-dogs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bird-dogs. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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